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Coimbatore Institute of
Technology
Department of CSE & IT
Two days faculty
development programme on “OPEN SOURCE & OPEN STANDARDS BASED
IBM TECHNOLOGIES” was conducted during 7th and 8th
of October, 2005.
Speakers:
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R. Dakshinamurthi, IBM Academic
Initiative
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Sriram Venkatesan ,IBM IT
Specialist
Participants:
Topics
Discussed:
Open Source is
source of material (software & Hardware) which is open to the users.
Open Standards are publicly available
specifications
for achieving a specific task. By allowing anyone to obtain and
implement the standard, they can increase
compatibility
between various
hardware
and
software
components, since anyone with the necessary technical
know-how
and resources can build products that work together with those of the
other vendors that base their designs on the standard .Open standards
which can be implemented by anyone, without royalties or other
restrictions, are sometimes referred to as
open formats.
DB2 Universal Database
is a web-enabled relational database management system that supports
data warehousing and transaction processing. It can be held from
hand-held computers to single processors to clusters of computers and is
multimedia-capable with image, audio, video and text support. DB2 is
optimized for each platform to maximize performance.
Eclipse
is an open source software development project dedicated to providing a
robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, industry platform for the
development of highly integrated tools. It is composed of three
projects, the
Eclipse Project,
the
Eclipse Tools
Project and the
Eclipse Technology
Project.
Web Sphere is
Internet infrastructure software - known as middleware. It enables
companies to develop, deploy and integrate next-generation e-business
applications, such as those for business-to-business e-commerce, and
supports business applications from simple Web publishing through
enterprise-scale transaction processing. Web Sphere transforms the way
businesses manage customer, partner, and employee relationships.
Gluecode
is an application server based on
Geronimo
code, maintained by
Gluecode Software,
Inc., which has been acquired by
IBM.
IBM offers Gluecode to it's customers, as an inexpensive alternative to
Websphere, and sells support services for the product as well.
Cloudscape (now
open sourced as
Apache
Derby) is a pure, open source-based
Java
Relational Database
Management System that can be embedded
in Java programs and used for
online transaction
processing (OLTP). A
platform-independent, small-footprint (2MB) database, Cloudscape
integrates tightly with any Java-based solution.
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