What's new with Big Blue
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Special Report: Inside
IBM’s software plans
IBM has managed to tough out the turbulence that drastically changed the software business. IBM leveraged a mix of hardware, software and services to improve its results in the industry sectors, such as the public, financial service and industrial segments, it considers key. The company followed its ramp-up of Java with a big push on standards-based Web services, and has been a very successful player in the new Linux OS segment. Coming up on the agenda are wider pushes into autonomic computing to ease deployment headaches, as well as into pervasive computing to expand the notion of computer clients that cover more of the world.
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IBM open-sources Cloudscape DB
IBM donated its Cloudscape database to the open-source Apache Software Foundation
(ASF). The Java-based, embeddable DB, now called “Derby,” was
open-sourced to “spur communal innovation for Java application development,”
said Janet Perna, general manager of IBM’s data management operations.
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IBM
offers Java coders free runtime for Linux and tool
previews
Seeking to win over Java coders working on Linux, IBM is making its Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for Linux available as a free download on its developerWorks Web site. Java developers can also download the latest version of the open-source Eclipse SDK from the same site.
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