Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly, broadcasting live from NYC as part of theCUBE interview series, sat down with Jerry Cuomo, IBM Fellow and WebSphere CTO to discuss Mobile Web, Javascript and the trends and oportunities in the industry.

There’s a lot of money in open source, taunts Vellante, and IBM is proof of that.

“A while ago we made some decisions to take an approach on building our platform around open systems. Almost in a Pavlovian way, the web bell rang, we responded and got a cookie. Now the bell is ringing again, but it’s resonating much deeper. It’s the mobile bell, with Big Data, Social, Analytics and Cloud. So, we’re going to respond, the way we responded before, around Open Systems and hope we get another cookie,” explained Jerry Cuomo.

Readying for today’s new demands

Considering the requirements of today’s development, Cuomo wonders: “When you look at building an end-to-end application (that talks back to a backend system), how many O’Reilly books a developer needs to have in his brain to accomplish that taks?” Building an end-to-end application these days is pretty daunting. This challenge also brought a revelation that had something to do with the “Javascript Everywhere” movement. “For the first time in my 25 years in IT, you had Javascript predominantly on the devices,” said Cuomo. One can say a lot about devices, but the only thing that they all have in common is Open Web. They all support HTML 5, Javascript, Json, etc.

On the server one has server-side Javascript as a viable option, and lots of databases (Mongo, for example). “For the first time, end-to-end, we have the ability to lower the concept-count for an Enterprise developer who’s building mobile applications, with Javascript across client, server and database, with Json as a dialtone across all those tiers.”

The 3 Amigos of Mobile Web

Cuomo thinks of this as the Three Amigos of the Mobile Web: the Javascript client, the Javascript server and the Javascript database.

As part of this MongoDB event, Jerry Cuomo discussed MongoDB’s prominent position in modern application development, as well as ways that the two companies will strengthen each other’s ecosystems in the near, medium and long term. When IBM and 10gen announced their collaboration earlier this month, they boasted “they were collaborating on a new standard that would enable the Global 2000 to more easily embrace mobile computing. Driving this standard will help unlock all of the data that exists within an enterprise and simplify the creation of next generation mobile and web apps for all platforms.”

Make sure you watch the video for the rest of Cuomo’s interview at theCube in New York.  See our entire event archive on our YouTube Channel here, and check back for an archived clip of today’s live broadcast.