[Coin-discuss] Off-topic: IBM's planned aquisition of Ilog

[Matthew Saltzman]

Thanks Alan.  That certainly sounds positive.

There's a discussion on Mike Trick's blog
(http://mat.tepper.cmu.edu/blog/ that might benefit from your comments,
too.

		Matt


On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 13:42 -0400, Alan King wrote:
> 
> No-one from IBM responded to this, so here is my two cents.  Please
> note also that all this discussion is hypothetical, since IBM has only
> announced its intentions and the actual transaction has yet to take
> place. 
> 
> The main issue for COIN probably boils down to whether the level of
> participation by IBMers will be affected.  Of course, no-one can know
> how busy any of us are going to be with non-COIN projects -- this
> varies from year to year, certainly -- and the impact could go both
> ways: adding ILOG to IBM creates more potential distractions for
> IBMers who contribute to COIN, on the other hand, incorporating
> ILOGers into IBM means that the pool of potential contributors to COIN
> will go up! 
> 
> The message from our management is that IBM Research is committed to
> open source, and COIN-OR in particular.  IBM has devoted a lot of
> resources to open source over many years, and there are many examples
> of IBM products successfully coexisting with an open source community
> -- even with the same developers.  Examples are gcc, Apache, Eclipse,
> and I am sure there are more.  So I think that the net effect will be
> positive for COIN -- it simply increases the scale of computational OR
> going on within IBM and thereby increases the potential for COIN-OR
> participation. 
> 
> Speaking personally, COIN gives me both an opportunity and an
> incentive to get ideas and code circulating in the community.
>  Successful participation in an open source community does get
> rewarded by IBM management (from time to time) and is certainly
> something I highlight in my annual review.  Finally, let me also
> emphasize that I personally regard participation in COIN to be a
> valuable part of my career in OR.   I am sure all of us here feel the
> same way.   
> 
> Alan 
> http://www.research.ibm.com/people/k/kingaj/ 
> 
> 
> From: 
> Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu> 
> To: 
> Sebastian Nowozin
> <nowozin at gmail.com> 
> Cc: 
> Discussions about open source
> software for Operations Research
> <coin-discuss at list.coin-or.org> 
> Date: 
> 07/28/2008 04:40 PM 
> Subject: 
> Re: [Coin-discuss] Off-topic: IBM's
> planned aquisition of Ilog
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 22:24 +0200, Sebastian Nowozin wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> > 
> > see
> >     http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/24740.wss
> >     http://mat.tepper.cmu.edu/blog/?p=307
> > 
> > The few details in the press release above makes discussion
> somewhat 
> > difficult, but is there a chance that this will directly or
> indirectly 
> > affect the COIN-OR project?
> 
> At this point, I know no more than you do.
> 
> Nobody has contacted us about it.  The news is very recent and the
> press
> release makes no reference to CPLEX.
> 
> -- 
>                Matthew Saltzman
> 
> Clemson University Math Sciences
> mjs AT clemson DOT edu
> http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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