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Demand That IBM Open-Source OS/2

OS2 World Foundation are petitioning IBM to release the operating system's source code as open-source since the product still plays a vital role within many financial firms where the support and…

IBM beats Microsoft over the head with its own code

IBM’s iAccessible2, code-named Project Missouri, is a specification for technology used to help the visually impaired interact with Open Document Format (ODF)-compliant applications and was…

IBM joins the OpenOffice.org community

The OpenOffice.org community today announced that IBM will be joining the community to collaborate on the development of OpenOffice.org software. IBM will be making initial code contributions that…

IBM and Novell Join Forces to Support Growing Demand for Open Source

At the opening of the LinuxWorld/Next Generation Data Center trade show in San Francisco, IBM and Novell today announced a new agreement to join forces to capture a larger piece of the growing…

IBM reveals new virtual Linux environment

IBM has today announced the availability of an open beta version of its virtual Linux environment to enable x86 Linux applications to run without modification on POWER processor-based IBM System p…

Why does IBM embrace Open-Source

Much has been made by myself as well as others, about IBM’s open arm embrace of open source software. A great article at preens.com notes the oddity in the following way: IBM, the epitome of…

Goodbye IBM Tivoli, Hello Open Source?

More and more IT management customers apparently want low-cost open source alternatives, according to TechIQ's The VAR Guy. See http://techiqmag.com/2007/04/17/goodbye-tivoli-hello-open-source/…

Bob Sutor (IBM VP for Open Source and Standards) speaking in Malaysia

Bob Sutor, the IBM Vice President for Open Source and Standards, will be speaking in Malaysia on open source and open standards. He will be speaking in two places, first at the Federation of…

IBM VP Scott Handy on Big Blue's Big Plans for Open Source

There's less concern about which OS you're on and, in fact, we're not going to cap it, we're going to see what happens with our users. We don't have a target, but I expect Linux usage will go up…

IBM wants to shrink the Linux server installed base

IBM says the 1.6 million stand-alone Linux servers running in enterprise data centers is too many. It's not Linux IBM has a thing against; it's the physical server hardware running the operating…