[CS-FSLUG] OT: IBM: Vendors who fail to adapt to open source may not be around in 2010

[Fred A. Miller]

IBM: Vendors must adapt to open source or die

 "Businesses that fail to adapt to open source innovation won't be around five 
years from now, warns Irving Wladawsky-Berger. Speaking at the Open Source 
Business Conference yesterday, IBM's vice president of technology and 
strategy for servers said, "The problems facing us are far bigger than any 
one company. One of the most interesting revolutions in businesses is how to 
bring together the best and brightest to collaborate." That collaboration 
means working with the open source community and finding a balance between 
proprietary and open source software. IBM has been the most aggressive of the 
big companies turning open source development into an asset--and a 
competitive weapon against Microsoft and Sun."

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=1245&tag=nl.e539

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