Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the come-one-come-all dept.
Blorgo wrote in with the
news that Pacific HiTech has announced the bundling of IBM's DB2 Universal Database with TurboLinux. IBM is just rolling in the news today. It also appears that the companies have also agreed to work on future editions of both work together more smoothly.
IBM is a good citizen in the Open Source world
by
Jeffrey+Baker
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I really like the way IBM is contributing to Open Source software. Instead of trying to use the time of developers for free, IBM is actually contributing to many prjects in useful ways. They are doing this in places where they know that the open software is going to help their business.
One case is the Perl DBI driver for DB2. IBM is directly involved in developing DBD::DB2, they support it, and the code is free. They do this becuase they recognize that most want to mix and match web servers with databases, and Perl is a great way to talk to the database from Apache, IIS, or a CGI environment.
Also, IBM has contributed in significant ways to the Apache project, and they have a considerable presence in the java development community.
I say hooray for IBM, they are showing the world how Open Source software and proprietary software can interact simbiotically in a profitable business.
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One case is the Perl DBI driver for DB2. IBM is directly involved in developing DBD::DB2, they support it, and the code is free. They do this becuase they recognize that most want to mix and match web servers with databases, and Perl is a great way to talk to the database from Apache, IIS, or a CGI environment.
Also, IBM has contributed in significant ways to the Apache project, and they have a considerable presence in the java development community.
I say hooray for IBM, they are showing the world how Open Source software and proprietary software can interact simbiotically in a profitable business.
-jwb