Back in November 29th last year, IBM and the Rexx Language Association announced that "after several months of negotiations between RexxLA and IBM, the company agreed to further their commitment to Open Source, by releasing Object REXX to the Open Source community". The "Open Object Rexx" project, which is the open source version of IBM's former commercial offering is managed by the RexxLA. As a result of this move, IBM's Object REXX was withdrawn from the company's product line.
On February the 7th, the beta open source version was posted to SourceForge.net one of the largest Open Source software development web sites.
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