pcsmits schrijft: "Hoewel Open Source niet per definitie gratis hoeft te betekenen, hanteert IBM voor de ViaVoice spraaksoftware deze definitie blijkbaar wel, want dit softwarepakket zal worden gebundeld met een groot aantal distributies aan het eind van dit jaar.
Ook maakte IBM op linuxworld een groot aantal andere linuxapplicaties Open Source.":
Let application development begin! The number of applications available defines the success of any operating system. IBM is making sure that its business applications will be known as Linux compatible. The company along with Caldera Systems today announced that they will be distributing application development kits for the following IBM products: IBM DB2 Universal Database for Linux IBM Websphere Application server for Linux Lotus Domino Java Development kits for Linux and, IBM Visual Age for Java for Linux Developers can go to http://www.ibm.com/linux or http://www.calderasystems.com/ to download the latest development kits. Do you speak Linux? One of IBM greatest darling project has been ViaVoice. Touted as the future of computing where users are free from keyboard and a mouse, IBM has finally released ViaVoice out of beta and into general availability. Available free for individual and non-commercial use, corporation can obtain site and per seat licenses. It will be bundled into many Linux distributions including SuSE, Caldera and Red Hat, with TurboLinux support following later this year. More information can be obtained at: http://www.software.ibm.com/speech/ Caldera Systems' Lineo division will be embedding ViaVoice into its Internet appliance offering Embedix. The product is the first of its kind to be based on a thin version of Linux
Kewl, En dat zouden meer mensen moeten doen! :-)
