
By Darryl K. Taft – 4 April 2005
IBM has quietly been using a form of open-source development internally to create technology the company will sell commercially.
Following on the success of its Eclipse open-source development platform, IBM has quietly been using a form of open-source development internally to create technology the company will sell commercially.
IBM calls its model Community Source, which it defines as a collaborative, internal, open-source-style environment for developing and testing new technology.