08 Nov 2001
IBM is donating $40m worth of software to the open source community to help users develop complex web services applications more quickly.
The move is designed to win over Microsoft developers for the next generation of user applications, according to analysts.
Big Blue is giving more than 40 per cent of the Java code in its WebSphere Studio Workbench development tool to Eclipse.org, an open source community which allows providers of application development tools to integrate their competing products. It has signed up more than 150 software suppliers.
Users typically require tools from several vendors to manage the software development process. Rival development tools do not work well together, and suppliers of all-encompassing integrated environments restrict users from choosing some external best-of-breed tools.
The lack of an open, integrated development platform is slowing down the creation of emerging web services applications, explained Jocelyne Attal, IBM vice president of application and integration middleware marketing. "Open standards accelerate the adoption of ebusiness," she said.
IBM is trying to do for application development tools what Linux has done for operating systems, said James Governor, analyst at researcher Illuminata.
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