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How IBM (and Open Source) Won eBay

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the battle-of-good-v-evil dept.

DemonBrew wrote to us with a new article in Business2 how IBM beat MSFT, Sun, BEA Systems to win the contract for the new eBay. Cool part is that it's based on Websphere, which has major open source components.

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  1. Websphere, Open Source, WTF? by outofthezone · · Score: 3, Flamebait

    What the hell are you talking about? Major open-source components? Which? Last I checked, (I have the Websphere Studio download sitting here, right from IBM's partner site - and I see nothing about open source anything. Is java open source? Or XML?

    Open Standards and open-source are 2 different things, and hell - Java isn't an open standard, nor is it open source in the truest sense. What a bunch of bullshit propaganda. Go Microsoft.

  2. Re:I've Said It Before... by lkaos · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Funny thing is that music is for the most part subjective. Country music is by far the most popular form of music. At any rate, one could not even come close to objectively stating that country music is better than say rock (whereas one may be able to make an argue for classical music being better than either of the two).

    On the other hand, I think one can make a very good objective argument as to why Java is a much worse language than say C++. So, while I'd be inclined to agree with your analogy (if you actually said it right, since I hate both Java and country music), it doesn't really work as an analogy.

    Perhaps:

    Java is to programming as N'Sync is to rock.

    --
    int func(int a);
    func((b += 3, b));