On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 09:17:41 +1000, Aravind Naidu
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>If you have followed the open source movement for the past couple of years,
>you will find, that off the big corporations, i.e. IBM, Sun, Oracle,
>Microsoft, BEA etc.. etc... IBM have possibly done the most for Open Source.
>Their commitment to Linux and Open Source in general has been remarkable.
>What a turnaround...
Absolutely, without a doubt the most pro-OS of the larger companies.
>Consider that they discarded their own web server and adopted Apache. They
>contributed their superb XML parser to the Apache foundation and their SOAP
>implementation too. Their Linux JDK though not OS, has made Linux a good
>platform for Java development and pratically forced SUN to release one for
>Linux. Not to mentioned Jikes.
Agreed. Jikes rules.
>Now, with WAS SE coming out as OS, AE can't be far away. As a member of the
>Open Source movement yourself, you should be welcoming them .... It is only
>going to benefit you.
>And as Marc has quit succinctly mentioned, they are BIG !!!
Now *that* would be interesting! If they OpenSource AE I will happily
take back what I said :-) An OpenSource WAS AE would indeed benefit us.
>BTW, with WAS SE, if you don't need Tivoli or if you don't want to use VAJ,
>then don't use them. They are not necessary for WAS SE to run, administer or
>develop to.
No, but the most logical options...
/Rickard
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