Entries tagged with “ibm” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

Ever wonder what the world of computing would be like if the IBM PC was originally created in an atmosphere of open-source?...

IBM's patent commons announcement is the most significant developments for the Open Source community in quite some time. But will this patent commons have a reach far greater than 500 patents?

IBM is pursuing 'grid computing' instead of the peer-to-peer computing everyone else is doing.. of course, they seem to include web services and an Internet OS in that category... a good read.

The movement to build a new-generation internet through a global computer "grid" will receive a big boost on Thursday when International Business Machines, the world's largest computing company, commits itself to the new technology.