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What the IBM Acquisition of StrongLoop Means for the Node.js Community

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Re: What the IBM Acquisition of StrongLoop Means for the Node.js Community

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Post by draw_down »

mbesto wrote: post #17

> And it’s not just Node.js. Maybe you haven’t looked at what IBM is doing with open source lately. I was surprised when I dug in. For example, did you know they are leading contributors to: Linux OpenStack Cloud Foundry Docker plus many Apache projects like Spark, Cordova and Hadoop and of course, Node They are? (keyword => "leading") https://github.com/docker/docker/graphs/contributors https://github.com/apache/spa…

What is it about these posts that bring out the HN contingent who think themselves firebrand skeptics? This is basically a marketing piece, what good is fact-checking it

Re: What the IBM Acquisition of StrongLoop Means for the Node.js Community

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Post by oneweekwonder »

Recently I got heavily into node-red[0] after playing with a ti sensortag[1], and I'm really amazed at what it can do, and that it is open source and actively used by IBM in bluemix.

Now they acquired another heavy weight in the js world, I wonder what is their next step.

On a side note, to the audience: have you looked at node-red, what do you think of it?

[0]: http://nodered.org/ [1]: http://www.ti.com/sensortag

ps. if you run node-red locally note by default it is insecure, you need to setup the config. But really it is a must try!

Re: What the IBM Acquisition of StrongLoop Means for the Node.js Community

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Post by funkysquid »

If you're trying to relieve fears, the first paragraph does not help.

"IBM has identified Node.js as an important part of the future of enterprise middleware and StrongLoop’s technology and expertise as pivotal to their strategy to help companies fully unlock the value of their existing IT investments and legacy data with APIs."

Re: What the IBM Acquisition of StrongLoop Means for the Node.js Community

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Post by astrodust »

rogerthis wrote: post #6

Once I worked in a project which IBM was also involved. And everything in IBM related to that project was slow, very slow.

It's a gigantic organization that makes hardware, software, and does consulting. Does one anecdotal story really characterize it?

Re: What the IBM Acquisition of StrongLoop Means for the Node.js Community

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Post by osullivj »

jsprogrammer wrote: post #12
osullivj wrote: post #11

I used to work with an old IBMer who used to say "it's no accident that IBM nearly collapsed at the same time as the Soviet Union did". Lou Gerstner famously rescued IBM from oblivion by turning it into a consultancy led company, and moving the focus away from mainframes. This is just a case of IBM snaffling up the latest cool thing so they can sell consulting services.

What is the connection to the Soviet Union? Were they a large IBM customer?

Both IBM and USSR were bloated, inefficient, slow moving, hierarchical, bureaucratic organisations. Gorbachev failed to save his org, despite heroic efforts. Gerstner did rescue IBM. Maybe if Gorby had saved the USSR Putin would still be working for the KGB in Berlin...

Re: What the IBM Acquisition of StrongLoop Means for the Node.js Community

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Post by rynop »

former IBM dev here (6 years in different areas). I hope they let you work on an island and don't force you to use their tooling/approve listed of open source software.

IBM has long embraced the OSS community (I loved LTC), but the process to release/use anything OSS was not good (to put it nicely) and was one of the many reasons I left.

I worked on a project that was on an island, and while it was more efficient than normal IBM dev, it was still 10x slower and tons of red tape then what was required to make a competitive product (and stay competitive). IBM is big and ultimately has to protect themselves - IMO ultimately it gets in your way of making a good/competitive product.

I like what StrongLoop does for the node community, and I do indeed hope you are successful and nothing changes. But to be honest I am very skeptical.

Re: What the IBM Acquisition of StrongLoop Means for the Node.js Community

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Post by ibmthrowaway271 »

astrodust wrote: post #26
rogerthis wrote: post #6

Once I worked in a project which IBM was also involved. And everything in IBM related to that project was slow, very slow.

It's a gigantic organization that makes hardware, software, and does consulting. Does one anecdotal story really characterize it?

Exactly, it's why I held out on posting my single counter anecdotal story.
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