At 10:41 AM 6/4/2004, Merritt, Eric wrote:
I wouldn't mind seening j2ee die a deserved death ;) However, I still don't quite see what IBM would get out of this. I suppose that they could try to create a proprietary standard and get everyone to migrate too it, but thats unlikely to work.
They just want to control as much as possible of any technology they use, and above all else exclude competitors from having control of it. Then they will try to find ways to have unique advantages over their competitors. They just play that game in a particularly muscular way, as does Microsoft.
Let me ask you this, why do you think IBM wants Java open-sourced? I think the way to answer that is to look at where IBM's strategic long-term interests lie.
If that was the case why havn't they done it with linux? or for that matter any of the many other open source projects that they have thier hand in.
I think they have things like that in mind for Linux too eventually. Combine with AIX etc. Sun is thinking of combining Linux with Solaris too (or open sourcing Solaris).
We are at only the beginning of many many gambits.
I also think that things could go horribly horribly wrong for them if some of their open-source partnerships fell apart. For example, IBM has based its whole development tool product line on Eclipse, and now Eclipse is becoming independent. Doesn't that amount to a huge risk?
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