IBM Exec Bemoans Lack of Industry-Specific Linux Apps

Ian Lamont writes "Bob Sutor, IBM's vice president of open source and standards, used his keynote appearance at LinuxWorld to complain about the lack of industry-specific open source apps. Despite some encouraging signs in the educational field with Sakai, Sutor said that he was 'tired of waiting' for specialized applications to appear in other sectors, adding that the proliferation of different licenses — and changing legal requirements for using the same software over time — is holding some businesses back from using open source applications."

Re:IBM Has a Lot of Nerve

[Anonymous Coward]

But IBM is doing open source a favor by making us all unemployed so we can write open source code all day long. Then when all software is open source, there will no longer be a need to outsource to india. See makes perfect sense ;-)

Re:Funny thing how not many want to slave for noth

[ettlz]

I'll slave for love (I swear I'll kill the bitch if she ever cheats on me)

I take it you don't use ext3, then.

Re:Holding me back

[Fred_A]

He's not a moaning exec, he's a man with a vision :
"Either it's going to happen or it's not going to happen." (Bob Sutor, vice president of open source and standards at IBM)

It's because of this kind of insight that he's a VP at IBM and you're not.

Re:Just a thought...

[mollymoo]

An Elite clone? Wow. If the open source community can clone a game written for an 8-bit micro by two people 24 years ago surely it won't be long till there is a superior clone of GTA 4.