What is the vision and objectives of the corporate open source and standards group of IBM?
We operate as part of IBM’s full open source and standards effort, focusing on issues such as cross-unit business strategy, community membership, and intellectual property. Our goal is to help the company optimise both short and long term growth and revenue, while simultaneously working with the industry to accelerate innovation around interoperability and new technology. What is your role as Vice President, Standards? What are the initiatives taken by your division towards the open standards? I work with colleagues in the hardware, software, legal, services, and industry areas to help develop and execute a coherent cross-IBM strategy around open technologies. In plainer language, this means that my team and I work with the various parts of our business that work with open source and standards. Some business units with IBM have been using open source, for example, for many years and have very mature business models. Other units are exploring new activities around open source and standa
