[LINK] Open source: 'World's largest software company'

[Howard Lowndes]

On Sat, April 26, 2008 17:55, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> Open source: 'World's largest software company'
> "The ultimate in disruptive technology" is coming up strong
> By Matthew Broersma
> 22 April 2008 15:48 BST
> http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39201838,00.htm
>
> Such findings are a telling insight into the ways open source can be
> seen as a threat by large software companies such as IBM, according to
> Dave Rosenberg, chief executive of open source start-up MuleSource.
>
> Rosenberg told silicon.com sister site, CNET News.com: "IBM is
> threatened by open-source SOA [service-oriented architecture] tools as
> many of them meet the full requirements enterprises look for. This
> baseline notion is interesting as products like JBoss used to be
> considered just for development with BEA for production but over the
> last two years or so that sentiment has changed, with lots of JBoss in
> production."
>


It was always my impression that IBM, along with RedHat and Novell, was
one of the biggest OSS users around.  ...but what do I know that a journo
doesn't...

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Howard
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