When the cluestick hits the wallet
It's amusing to see IBM suddenly get all uppity about open source. Apparently it's just fine when it's taking business away from Microsoft or Sun (Eclipse), but just awful when it's taking business away from big buck products like WebSphere. Spotted this in Sam Ruby's comments:
IBM says LAMP users need to grow up. Woodshed!Let’s do it: According to Daniel Sabbah, general manager of IBM’s Rational division, LAMP — the popular Web development stack — works well for basic applications but lacks the ability to scale.
I think it might be time to hand IBM a mirror. That sound they hear? It's their own support of OSS projects eating their very own market out from under them...
Comments
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[murphee (http://jroller.com/page/murphee] May 29, 2005 18:12:19.000
James
your conclusion is wrong: the comment was about LAMP solutions not scaling too well and not about OSS software (mind you: I'm not talking about how true or not true the LAMP-scaling argument is).
Read this - where IBM buys an OSS J2EE application server vendor to take over it's services market (they'll continue the acquired OSS product). Mind you, many companies choose Websphere because of reasons like existing contracts with IBM or existing IBM software/environments and not necessarily because of the servers particular merits, so OSS J2EE application servers wouldn't cut into IBMs software sales anyway.