From: "Paul Ranson" 

Have you actually read that article? It smartly segues from 'open source
standard' to 'open standard'.

I see no indication that IBM is planning to invest in Open Source. And the
role models are SAP and BEA...

A proprietary data base on Linux is still proprietary.

Paul

"Joe Barr"  wrote in message
news:3df8b137$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> http://in.news.yahoo.com/021212/43/1z0mv.html
>
> Bangalore, Dec 12 (IANS) After Microsoft chairman Bill Gates' lavish
> offerings for health, education and proprietary software, his company's
> biggest competitor IBM has offered to transform India into a software
> industry hub if it adopts the open source standard.
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