Posted on 08/23/2005 4:10:05 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
IBM Woos the World's Geeks - Big Blue will let software developers in Brazil, Russia, India, and China use company products for free.
IBM announced an initiative Monday to encourage developers in emerging economies to work on the computing giants open standards technology, a computing framework for which hardware and software specifications are publicly available.
As part of the initiative, the Armonk, New York-based company said that for the first time, developers in Brazil, Russia, India, Chinapopularly known as BRIC countrieswill get instant access to IBMs hardware and software portfolio from their desktop at no charge.
(Excerpt) Read more at redherring.com ...
Relocating Americns to BRIC countries is NOT the same as outsourcing specific job projects and you know it (at least I HOPE you do)
Never mind, I'm not going to beat this dead horse all day.
They are not going to give all 97% as one lump total. They will give small pieces that all together would equal 97%.
No one person or entity will get all 97% completely set up in easy to access classes and ready to be run or compiled or whatever. They'll see one piece, then another, then another in no particular order. Come on man, let's use our logic on this one.
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