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IBM buys Gluecode

Posted by samzenpus on from the buy-it-all dept.

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."

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  1. Apache Harmony by olafura · · Score: 4, Interesting

    IBM has campaining for open source J2SE.
    When Classpath is turning almost compliant, Apache tries to help it's accepance by requesting
    them to move the code to the Apache Licence.
    The man behind it is a VP at Gluecode.
    IBM buys Gluecode.

    Also there was a rumor on jpackage about an undisclose three letter company that
    was getting them to test a free j2se impementation.