IT-Director: Why We Won’t be Talking About Open Source in the Future

“Being a good analyst, I attended IBM’s Open Source and Linux
analyst event last week. Although it was predictably on the east
coast, which means a good west coast guy like me got to spend more
time in airplanes than at the event itself, I nevertheless made the
trek to hear from Big Blue. While some of the issues discussed and
positions taken were predictable–not in a bad sense, just that
they were consistent with past communications–I started having of
sense of déjà vu, with the wayback machine pointing
to 1996. After asking, Mr. Peabody reassured me that it was in fact
a decade later, it all started to come together for me. So just
what in the world am I talking about? Read on…”

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