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1. Comment - IBM Turns to Open Source Development

   (Jun 14, 2005 - 3:34 PM)

   A few points of clarification. I want to draw a distinction between open source code and open source development procedures. IBM is a very active participant and contributor to a great many open source communities. We believe that open source and the standards that it promotes and the collaborative innovation it represents is an important and significant phenomenon and we are executing a strategy to leverage open source code to deliver value to our customers. The point I was trying to make in this article is somewhat different. Many of the code lines that IBM and other commercial software companies have been working on have become very large and difficult to manage and represent significant engineering challenges. We made a strategic decision a number of years ago to move to a much more componentized/modularized group of code bases. It is our belief that this will allow us to deliver more flexible, consistent, and cost effective solutions to the market in a more timely manner. To accomplish this goal, and coordinate the many programming resources that we have around the globe we have been adopting many of the practices, procedures and tools from the open source community. In this case I am not referring to leveraging open source code but instead open source culture which we have adopted internally and refer to as community source.