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IBM to Open Projects at SourceForge.net

Posted by Zonk on from the go-big-blue dept.

cfelde writes "On Friday, IBM said it is contributing some 30 open-source projects to SourceForge.net. IBM also said it is expanding its own developerWorks Web site with more resources including training in PHP and other popular technologies." This probably dovetails with IBM's new full on support of the PHP language.

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  1. Great news! by keiferb · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's always good to see a big name, particularly one that's not often at the top of the who-do-we-want-to-flame-today list, getting behind OSS products and sites. Yay, IBM!

  2. IBM's rhype also now open source by Xpilot · · Score: 4, Informative

    On a somewhat related note, IBM has released rhype, it's research hypervisor as open source under the GPL. This should spice up the free hypervisor community. First Xen, now IBM's rhype. Choice is so good :)

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    1. Re:IBM's rhype also now open source by Elwood+P+Dowd · · Score: 2, Informative

      It manages system virtualization. Sits between the OS and the iron, and can host several OSs simultaneously. This is a big, important feature of IBM's products.

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  3. Re:List of the Projects? by UTF-8 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't know all of them, but one of the projects that was moved was http://icu.sourceforge.net/

    IBM has been very involved with open source for many years, and now they are moving the hosting of many projects to other sites. One of them is to sourceforge. The donation was more of a move from DeveloperWorks to Sourceforge because of the increasing costs (bureaucracy) to maintain many projects on ibm.com.

    ICU (International Components for Unicode) has been on DeveloperWorks and AlphaWorks as open source since 1999.

  4. What projects? by HogGeek · · Score: 2, Informative
    I tried doing a search for both people and project that contain IBM, but nothing solid.

    Is there a list of software that they donated? I'm curious if its "newer" stuff, of old stuff they no longer user, nor implement themselves...

  5. Re:IBM And MONEY by kiore · · Score: 3, Informative

    Putting the source code in a repository they neither own nor control makes me feel more comfortable that they are sincere.

    Given IBM's recent history, it didn't surprise me to hear that they are a cash contributor to Sourceforge. The "site sponsors" block on the left of the Sourceforge homepage contains at least one link to an IBM site. I clicked the DB2 link to see where it went ... www14.software.ibm.com

  6. CVS Status by YodaToo · · Score: 2, Informative

    Unfortunately all of their projects will show zero files committed until they get this Nov. 2003 issue fixed.

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  7. Re:I'm presuming Performance Explorer is one of th by saugart · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm at IBM Watson, down the hall from one of the Performance Explorer (PE) guys, and I just went up to ask about it. PE did indeed go over, and it's licensed under the IBM CPL, which is very similar to the Apache Public License (APL). The CPL isn't just "generally an open-source license," it's been certified as one by the OSDI. One of the authors of PE is a graduate student, and he's been pretty busy with his own life right now. It probably won't make it out at the end of this month. We're nudging the authors, anyway. They just want to get the code into better shape for release. PE is a sub-project of Jikes RVM, a free VM for Java project I develop on, and it's at http://jikesrvm.sourceforge.net . I'm sorry to say that, right now, the PE directory in our CVS repository is just a placeholder.

  8. List of projects by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 4, Informative

    AIX Toolbox - http://sf.net/projects/aixtoolbox/

    Bluetooth ad-hoc network simulator - http://sf.net/projects/bluehoc/

    Dynamic Probe Class Library - http://sf.net/projects/dpcl/

    Journaled File System - http://sf.net/projects/jfs/

    IBM Jikes Compiler for the Java Language - http://sf.net/projects/jikes/

    Jikes RVM - http://sf.net/projects/jikesrvm/

    Java POS Config Loader - http://sf.net/projects/jposloader/

    Toolbox for Java/JTOpen - http://sf.net/projects/jt400/

    openCryptoki - http://sf.net/projects/opencryptoki/

    LTC Linux Kernel Performance Project - http://sf.net/projects/linuxperf/

    LSID (Life Science Identifier) - http://sf.net/projects/lsid/

    Memory Expansion Technology - http://sf.net/projects/mxt/

    OpenSSH on AIX - http://sf.net/projects/openssh-aix/

    Standards Based Linux Instrumentation - http://sf.net/projects/sblim/

    UDDI4J Java Class Library - http://sf.net/projects/uddi4j/

    Web Services Description Language for Java -
    http://sf.net/projects/wsdl4j/

    ACP Modem (Mwave) Driver for Linux - http://sf.net/projects/acpmodem/

    International Components for Unicode - http://sf.net/projects/icu/

    Dynamic Probes - http://sf.net/projects/dprobes/

    TCL extension library for IBM Speech Manager Applications Programming
    Interface (SMAPI) - http://sf.net/projects/tclsmapi/

    TCK for JWSDL ( JWSDLTCK ) - http://sf.net/projects/jwsdltck/

    (from the SourceForge post on that @ http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=44 9291)