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The open-source ‘stable’ release: Bringing order to the Wild West of IT | #IBMOCA
If you want to get in on the most nascent technologies, there’s no doubt you should be playing in open source. It’s where the Dockers of tomorrow are right now being tried, tested and perfected. The technology you’re sitting and waiting for in the consumer market might already be happening in open source. Granted, the wild, undomesticated nature of the environment can be off-putting to some, but now there may be a middle ground opening.
Todd Moore, VP of open technology at IBM, spoke to John Furrier (@furrier), cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during the IBM Open Cloud Architecture Summit about the need to offer users choices. With IBM’s revamping of open-source platform Node.js, he said the company took something very fractured and organized it into something that even newcomers can take part in.
Taming the beast
Moore told Furrier that with Node.js, “We have releases where everything and the kitchen sink is in there. And then after a short period of time, we create the long-term stable release.”
He added that it has a predictable release cycle so that “those that get on board and want to be part of this can either be on the stable side or they can play on the wild side and be there with what’s the latest.”
He spoke about how he sees open technology and IBM’s ongoing role within it. “Much of this is a very large integration task,” he said, adding that the complexity of open source has many looking for management help, and some find IBM is the right folks for the job.
Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of the IBM Open Cloud Architecture Summit.
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