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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. Why am I worried.... by DoraLives · · Score: 4, Interesting
    that this will all turn out horribly wrong in the end? Am I just alergic to large corporations in general?

    Is my tinfoil hat on too tight?

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  2. Amazing by Rei · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's amazing how well IBM has been transforming itself from the universally-recognized Bad Guy(tm) to a geek's best friend ;) Back in the day, IBM was the Evil Empire of the computer world.

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  3. Good news for PHP... by bc90021 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...and I'm glad it was included in this story, since I hadn't seen the prior one.

    While a lot of people like to knock PHP (mostly Java guys, but hey ;) ), I love it. It's easy, functional, and lately, a lot more mature with the OO aspects. (I have one class now that I use for database access, and it makes life so much easier.)

    With things like PHP-GTK, you can even use it to write applications, and with IBM behind it, things will likely only improve.

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  4. List of the Projects? by D4rk+Fx · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does anyone have a list of all thr projects IBM is helping? TFA didn't seem to have all of them, only a couple

  5. Large Corporations and Criticism by sameerdesai · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's amazing how we criticise M$ for not being open and IBM for tring to be open.

  6. This is a good move, by robyannetta · · Score: 5, Interesting
    As we learned in The Art of War by Sun Tzu, to win the war, make as many allies as possible.

    IBM learned early on that if you have the Linux community backing a multi-billion dollar corporate entity like themselves, they stand a helluva good chance toppling that Redmond, Washington company they don't like.

    They have my vote.

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  7. Re:IBM And MONEY by Aspirator · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sourceforge is the acknowledged place these things
    are coordinated, It is great to see a giant like
    IBM contributing in the 'commoners' forum.

    > but using OpenSource public tools when
    > properly funded seems somewhat.. rude, no?

    Rude? NO. It is a very good thing.
    It is a testament to how good some of the Open Source tools have become.

  8. Then again... by Ulric · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Microsoft Contributes To Open Source Site

  9. What about the cloudscape contest? by stm2 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This may seems OT, I am not sure. But IBM sponsored a contest in Sourceforge (with iPODs as prices). It was supposed to announce winners Feb 18 but I still don know what happened. My JAVA-fu were good according to IBM, but I still didn got any notification about who won.
    BTW, I didn need to code JAVA at all, just use a IBM tutorial-game as example and soved without programing :)

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