IBM Exec Sees Open-source Boom in 2006

JANUARY 30, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) – Bob Sutor, IBM’s vice president of standards and open-source, expects a number of industries to embrace open-source software in 2006 — and he expects IBM to play a role in many of those efforts. In an interview with Computerworld last week, Sutor also weighed in on the state of Linux and on Massachusetts’ plans to use the XML-based OpenDocument file format.