NewsForge: What's to Come in the (Linux) Software Market? | Linux Today

NewsForge: What’s to Come in the (Linux) Software Market?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 14, 2004

“The LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco last week
featured many interesting announcements. However, the show was at
least as noteworthy for its implications as for its actual news
announcements.

“IBM Corp.’s announced transformation of its Cloudscape database
solution into an Open Source offering follows closely the
announcement of a similar transformation for Computer Associates
International, Inc. (CA)’s Ingres database solution. Between
Cloudscape and Ingres, Open Source developers now have multiple new
and powerful options for building more ‘enterprise-class’
solutions…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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