This article presents an interesting perspective on IBM and their stance on open source. Although IBM is a strong Linux supporter, they compete agressively against JBoss and MySQL. They also certainly have no intention to open source WebSphere or DB2. IBM is not nearly as behind the general open source concept as they are behind Linux. This is a good thing for Linux, but it begs the question, what is the real plan?
IBM's real goal is to open source the base layers and then sell expensive enterprise tools which sits on top of those layers. This works well for Linux, but when open source groups start implementing the top layers, we may see a different IBM.
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