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Start-up ActiveGrid has released an update to its toolset for building business applications with open-source software, adding support for IBM's newly introduced free DB2 database.
Businesses that run on the Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python (LAMP) model will have to "grow up" to avoid reliability issues in future, an IBM executive said.
The most popular open-source software is also the most free of bugs, according to the first results of a US government-sponsored effort to help make such software as secure as possible.
BEA Systems -- a company long committed to the Java programming language -- plans to support alternative scripting languages in upcoming products.
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Databases have been available with an open-source licence for many years. But the past few months have seen a growing number of partnerships and products aimed at maturing the industry of add-ons and support services -- vital to winning over corporate customers.
The release of IBM's free DB2 database points to the downward price pressure from open-source programmers' tools.
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