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IBM buys Gluecode
karvind writes "After acquisition of Ascential, Big Blue has bought the application management firm Gluecode. From the article: IBM plans to allow its customers to download Gluecode software, develop their own application server software, and begin using it -- all at no cost. IBM also said it will become an active contributor to the Apache Geronimo open source project and will expand the existing community of developers."
I got diabetes from too much glucode.
Next up from IBM -- they mail you sand, which you can use to develop advanced microprocessors and chipsets, and begin using them, all at no cost!
Followed by their patented 4k GIF reading "WORK FASTER," intended for use to develop your own source code control system, and begin using it -- all at no cost!
For the coup de grace, an online whiteboard, allowing you to jot arbitrary equations and thus evewntually develop amazing new branches of quantum physics, revolutionizing modern thought. All for just two percent of royalties (plus naming rights)!
Thanks, IBM!
This is part of their overall plan to return to profitability: Give stuff away and make it up on volume.
After the last story, I read your post as " They did. They fried all the workers." I wonder if they'd do that in an aquarium...
IBM plans to allow its customers to download Gluecode software, develop their own application server software, and begin using it -- all at no cost.
Does that mean there's a lot of cutting and pasting involved?
For most small J2EE apps, if you need something that isn't in Jetty Plus (besides the database,) you need to think hard about whether you're over engineering.
ARE YOU KIDDING?? Suppose I have a SMALL, J2EE app, and suppose it's overengineered..., but I repeat myself.
Larry Wall sold Perl?!?!