When will IBM buy Sun? When asked about the desire to own Java, IBM's Director for eBusiness Standards Strategy Bob Sutor said "I don't know about owning it, but we'd sure like to see it open sourced." [ ZDNet]
It is pretty amazing how many open source projects IBM controls, in the sense of having a significant sway over the project's direction. In fact, I think we could refer to the relationship between a big company like IBM and the thousands of independent open source programmers as symbiosis: each group benefits in some way.
Posted by Doug Sauder at April 10, 2002 09:47 PM