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[News] [OSS] Tim Bray Explains the Benefits of Open Source to a Company

Tim Bray on Sun and Open Source

,----[ Overview ]
| Sun's Tim Bray discusses Ruby, Java, Atom, and his role as a 
| technology evangelist
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| DDJ: From a business perspective, why is Sun interested in 
| open-source projects, such as JRuby?
| 
| TB: The first answer is a complete no-brainer: people who use Rails 
| and Ruby are developers developing applications that need computers 
| to run on, and OS infrastructures, and application servers. They 
| need all the stuff we sell; why wouldn't we love them? They are 
| creating business for us. All we need to do is provide them with 
| support and tools. It's a mutual back-scratching arrangement of 
| the first order. Sun loves anybody making the Internet bigger 
| and richer, because we sell the iron that helps make it go. 
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http://www.ddj.com/dept/java/199900489

If It's Business Critical Applications, It's Got To Be Open Source

http://www.dqchannels.com/content/space/107060205.asp



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