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Re: [News] IBM Says It's Dedicated to Open Source While Microsoft Goes the Other Way

____/ Scott Van Riple on Saturday 07 July 2007 13:54 : \____

> 
> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:4407697.J0D8J9t36v@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> IBM zeroes in on Project Zero for Web 2.0 apps
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | REST and Atom form the basis of the service invocation model while JSON
>> | (JavaScript Object Notation) and XML provide for data interchange. AJAX
>> | (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is the model for a rich client in
>> Zero.
>> | Extensive scripting is supported.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | But he emphasized that IBM is in open source's corner.
>> |
>> | "IBM remains committed to open source. Project Zero follows a commercial
>> | software development effort, in much the same way as other commercial
>> | offerings from IBM. [The] fact that Project Zero is based on a number of
>> open
>> | source technologies and that it represents such a significant investment
>> on
>> | top of these technologies speaks to IBM's commitment," McGee says.
>> `----
> 
> 
> I see that the IBM marketing department has managed to fool weak minded
> individuals like you that they are somehow this open-source company. It's
> nothing of the source.
> 
> Do list when IBM will be releasing the source code to the public for their
> operating systems, compilers, databases, network management tools, ETL
> software, etc. The fact is that IBM marketing likes to "talk" open-source
> while IBM sales department likes to "sell" their closed source applications.

Nudds nym. Your headers give it away immediately. *plonk*

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