On February 25th, IBM announced that the company's 30 open source projects were released on the famous open source website SourceForge.NET. At the same time IBM also, in order to combine the company's open source Java database Cloudscape with the web programming language PHP, will cooperate with PHP Tools Enterprise Zendtechnologies.
While publishing this batch of open source projects, IBM issued approximately 160 items on the company's resource website developerWorks. However, Bernard Spang, director of IBM Software Development Group Database Market, said that the purpose of issuing open source projects is not to earn the number of visitors.
In the open source project released by the SourceForge.Net, Java Compiler Jikes provides UDDI4J, Bluetooth Simulator Bluehoc, etc. These items are based on GPL, BSD or IBM CPL protocol.
In order to strengthen cooperation with Zend, IBM opened a PHP area in DeveloperWorks, providing teaching articles and forums. According to the data provided by IBM, PHP accounts for 40% of the Web Development field, with PHP-based Apache servers as a Web service platform accounted for more than 70%.
After IBM and Zend, the seamless PHP development environment of the installation will be launched, and the technical support of the technical support Zend Core for IBM, and cooperates to develop the software that integrates the Zend and PHP schemes and Cloudscape, is expected to be released in the second quarter of this year. Open source is actually similar in China's opening, do not open themselves, will never develop, leaning on their own technical strength can only mix mouth rice, if you want more people to support you, help you have to develop, you must have a long eyes, just That mobile operating system, Wince, Palm, Smartphone, Symbian each accounts for a certain market share, in fact, which is not bad from the technology, each platform has countless amateur enthusiasts to prepare extension applications for it, so manufacturers for the great hobbies Some perspectives are one of the key factors that determine success or failure from a certain point of view.
