InfoWorld: How do you compete with the free offerings of Eclipse when you have a price tag on your products? At what point is it that there’s so much value-add on the Eclipse stuff that who needs to buy any software?
Sabbah: How do I compete with the open source world?
InfoWorld: Yes.
Sabbah: The open source world is not providing any of these types of solutions. What they’re doing is they’re providing base capability in building out just core elements, like Java code or J2EE code or basic UML (Unified Modeling Language) modeling or any of those things. I mean they’re providing standards for me to then leverage, but they’re not providing governance solutions, they’re not providing compliance solutions, they’re not providing end-to-end SLA solutions, and they’re not managing all of those things.
InfoWorld: These days, do you think software development has become a match-up of Eclipse versus .Net versus LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL Perl/Python/PHP), or is it still Java versus .Net?
Sabbah: I think it’s the open world versus .Net. There’s nothing inherently conflicting in LAMP and Eclipse. So I don’t see those as conflicting issues. And Java is one of the core constituents, but basically Eclipse is being used for developing C/C++ code, for developing Java code, for developing all kinds of assets.
InfoWorld: What do you see as the impact on software development of these new scripting languages that are coming out, such as PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor)?
Sabbah: We are embracing PHP. So basically we don’t see it as a threat or anything else. We see all of these efforts, JavaScript-based efforts, PHP-based efforts, like AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) or whatever, basically, as help. They don’t conflict with Java per se. They make it easier to consume, which is great.
InfoWorld: IBM bought up Rational several years ago. Is there anything more that needs to be done to merge the two companies or is everything pretty much completed?
Sabbah: Everything’s done. Everything’s in the past, basically. Rational is now a brand in the software group, it’s not a separate company. So it’s integrated from a sales standpoint, from a development standpoint, from a marketing standpoint. Everything is fully integrated into IBM at this point.
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