:Enterprise Linux Today: IBM Donates $40 Million of Software to Open
Source Community
Enterprise Linux Today: IBM Donates $40 Million of Software to Open
Source Community Nov 5, 2001, 16 :28 UTC (31 Talkback[s]) (7056 reads)
"IBM today announced it is donating $40
million of software to a new independent open-source community. The
Java-based open source software, code-named Eclipse, will enable developers
to use software tools from multiple suppliers together, allowing developers
to integrate business processes used to create e-business applications,
such as those for Web services.
This new open source community already involves more than 150 leading
software tool suppliers working together to evolve Eclipse software, which
will be available free-of-charge to developers. More than 1,200 individual
developers from 63 countries have already participated in the Eclipse open
source community process.
The community will be managed by a multi-vendor organization and will
include participation by industry leaders such as IBM, Merant, QSSL,
Rational, Red Hat, TogetherSoft, and others. Later this month, the
community will announce details about the organization, including the
multi-vendor board of directors."
