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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. Open standard? by km790816 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "IBM's expertise with the open-standard Java programming language..."

    Open standard? Did I read this wrong?

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  2. IBM sniped by mochan_s · · Score: 0, Redundant

    IBM must have sniped to win the ebay bid.