IBM unveils new offerings for Open Source community

CAMBRIDGE: Reinforcing the company's strategy around open source business models, IBM announced new software and resources to help customers leverage their investments in open source development tools and resources. The new offerings will help software development teams build Eclipse-based open integrated development environments that are technologically diverse and vendor neutral.

IBM is also unveiling a new customer support program, IBM Rational elite support for Eclipse, that will provide hands on technical assistance to the more than 2.3 million developers of Eclipse worldwide.

IBM is responding to the growing needs of customers and the open source development community, by addressing the requirement for commercial vendors to complement the current open source community model," said Bola Rotibi, Senior Analyst, Ovum.

With set of announcements, IBM is nurturing the next phase of Eclipse adoption -- expanding its focus on development tools to now include the development of standards-based cross platform business applications for desktops and servers.

IBM is unveiling new software and resources to help developers embrace open source and Eclipse Callisto. IBM also plans to roll out a comprehensive set of Eclipse Callisto tools to help clients quickly design, develop and test applications.