Open Source at IBM

As part of the community, IBM contributes to Apache projects such as Apache Geronimo and offers WAS Community Edition as IBM's supported distribution of Geronimo. WAS Community Edition pre-integrates Apache Tomcat with other open source components such as web services, security, authentication, messaging and web tier clustering. It is free to download and use in production with support options available on a yearly subscription.

IBM contributes to Eclipse and OpenOffice.org as part of the community and then uses open source components in the Lotus Expeditor platform and cross-client GUI applications such as Lotus Notes 8, Lotus Sametime 7.5 and Lotus Symphony.

IBM contributes to Eclipse Aperi and COSMOS as part of the community to provide common open source components which can be used in future generations of products.

Working as part of the Globus, Xen and Apache Hadoop communities to develop open source components which are then used in IBM Grid and Blue Cloud offerings.

Contributing to Linux and providing the Integrated Stack for SUSE Linux Enterprise, a pre-integrated database and application server stack on Linux.

IBM contributes to the Eclipse community and then uses Eclipse as the basis on which the Rational Software Delivery Platform is built. IBM is also building its Jazz project for collaborative development on Eclipse, and has opened up access to the Jazz development website to Rational customers, business partners and selected individuals.

Offering free DB2 Express-C--production ready and with native XML. IBM contributes to the Apache Derby and Lucene projects and uses these open source components in a number of IBM products including OmniFind Yahoo! Edition.

IBM contributes to many open source emerging technology projects through communities including Apache and Eclipse. This includes Apache Tuscany, OpenAjax, Dojo, and Apache UIMA.

Opening the ecosystem and building collaborative communities around POWER processors and Blade systems through an open source hardware approach.