Re: how is IBM i affected by acquisition of Sun? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: how is IBM i affected by acquisition of Sun?
From: Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:46:59 -0400
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On 20-Mar-09, at 1:37 PM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Open-source idealists and communities would be hardest hit. I can see IBM giving lip service to them but putting most of their efforts into proprietary versions of Java, Java Application Servers, and MySQL.

Why do you say this Nathan? IBM donated Eclipse to the OS community and followed up the initial piece with handing over the base RSE among other things. Compared with Sun who fought against OS for Java for the longest time IBM seem like paragons of virtue to me.

Jon Paris

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Re: how is IBM i affected by acquisition of Sun? , Joe Pluta
Re: how is IBM i affected by acquisition of Sun? , Nathan Andelin

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