IBM loves open source, doesn't it?

21 Nov 2005

Who's the biggest fan of open source on the IT block? IBM, right? Apparently, though, it isn't completely in love: it has reservations. In fact, IBM's just fine and dandy with open source as long as it doesn't have to compete with it with its own products.

With MySQL on the rise, IBM has decided that it needs a way to boost DB2 and is considering creating a free, cut down version of DB2. This won't be open source, though. Anyone else guessing that perhaps IBM makes too much money from DB2 to want to give it away to the community? And that IBM's love of open source is limited to areas where it means they can give it away with their hardware, thus saving them licensing costs, or in areas where they don't make money from their own software and fancy a little help with the R&D?

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Posted by Rob Buckley on Monday, November 21, 2005 at 10:15 AM | 0 TrackBacks

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