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IBM Open Sources 'WebSphere Liberty' For Java Microservices and Cloud-Native Apps (techrepublic.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the big-data-with-Big-Blue dept.

An anonymous reader quotes TechRepublic: On Wednesday, IBM revealed the Open Liberty project, open sourcing its WebSphere Liberty code on GitHub to support Java microservices and cloud-native apps. The company created Liberty five years ago to help developers more quickly and easily create applications using agile and DevOps principles, according to an IBM developerWorks blog post from Ian Robinson, WebSphere Foundation chief architect at IBM... Developers can also choose to move to the commercial versions of WebSphere Liberty at any time, he noted, which include technical support and more specialized features... "We hope Open Liberty will help more developers turn their ideas into full-fledged, enterprise ready apps," Robinson wrote. "We also hope it will broaden the WebSphere family to include more ideas and innovations to benefit the broader Java community of developers at organizations big and small."
IBM argues that Open Liberty, along with the OpenJ9 VM they open sourced last week, "provides the full Java stack from IBM with a fully open licensing model."

Interestingly, Slashdot ran a story asking "IBM WebSphere SE To Be Opened?" -- back in 2000.

4 of 17 comments (clear)

  1. Who cares? by DaMattster · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I would love to see IBM open source Lotus Notes and Domino but that will never happen!

  2. First hit is free by tomhath · · Score: 2

    Developers can also choose to move to the commercial versions of WebSphere Liberty at any time, he noted

    In other words, get your application running, albeit poorly at first. Then IBM salemen will descend on you and try to figure out how much you have in your checking account.

  3. Re:TFA by lucm · · Score: 2

    Wow, ain't that slow to load. Seems IBM is going for the cool kids with tech from 70s...

    Their blog probably runs on Websphere. Which is not only blazing fast, but also is always a delight to work with, given its exciting Jython api and impenetrable maze of modules and dependencies.

    Here's the Websphere recipe: take tomcat and apache httpd, add a gallon of barf and 2GB of xml files, and make a drunk intern who majored in industrial masonry design the admin GUI. Then make this masterpiece mature in a dutch oven while evil entities from a parallel nightmarish universe fly around it, tainting it with pure malice and the immanent essence of grotesqueness. Of course I don't have evidence that this is the true recipe; the blood of unborn twins may or may not be required. But what I know from experience is that it is truly a piece of shit.

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    lucm, indeed.
  4. Re:What about open sourcing AIX? by lucm · · Score: 2

    What about open sourcing AIX

    Or what about killing it with fire instead?

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    lucm, indeed.