THE FOLKS AT the corporation that used to be called "Big Blue" and to which I nowadays refer to as "I Buy Microsoft" due to its reluctance to migrate to Linux internally has let go its commercial Rexx programming language product. This is now open source and handled by an independent association. The first open source version of the Open Object Rexx interpreter was made available for download last Monday.

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 As a result of this move, IBM's Object REXX was withdrawn from the company's product line.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.

Read the entire article at the Inquirer.

Source: theinquirer.net

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