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IBM's acqusition of Gluecode: it's about more than open source

On May 10, IBM announced what it referred to as a “significant software acquisition” – that of an 18 person company founded less than two years ago! Following so soon after the closure of the $1.1 billion acquisition of Ascential, one could be forgiven for questioning the significance. With the benefit of two days in [...]

Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2005 by

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A note re: the IBM-Lawson Software tie-up: just remember San Francisco

A cautionary note to anyone getting carried away thinking about the potential ramifications of the tie-up between IBM and Lawson Software (mid-market vendor of packaged application software) – Lawson was one of the high-profile vendors which signed up to support IBM’s San Francisco project, which started with great fanfare in 1994. San Francisco was an [...]

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