Moodle in English: Pinch me!

Pinch me!

by Bryan Williams - Saturday, February 26, 2005, 10:54 AM

IBM Backs Open-Source Web Software (PHP)
http://news.com.com/IBM+backs+open+source+Web+software/2100-7344_3-5589559.html
http://zend.com/
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/info/zendcore/
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/products/opensource/
http://www.php.net/

"IBM is putting its corporate heft behind a popular open-source Web development technology called PHP, in a move meant to reach out to a broader set of developers.

"On Friday, the tech giant announced a partnership with Zend Technologies to create a bundle called Zend Core, which includes IBM's Cloudscape-embedded database and Zend's PHP development tools. Zend sells tools built on the open-source edition of PHP and offers related services..."

"One industry executive who requested not to be named said that IBM's push into PHP and scripting reflects IBM's disillusionment with the Java standardization process and the industry's inability to make Java very easy to use."

"IBM's been so fed up with Java that they've been looking for alternatives for years," the executive said. "They want people to build applications quickly that tap into IBM back-ends...and with Java, it just isn't happening."

Re: Pinch me!

by Bill Burgos - Saturday, February 26, 2005, 11:41 AM

Bryan,

Consider yourself pinched! surprise

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Re: Pinch me!

by Don Hinkelman - Saturday, February 26, 2005, 2:56 PM

Pinch me! I can't stop dreaming....

"IBM is putting its corporate heft behind a popular open-source Web development technology called Moodle, in a move meant to reach out to a broader set of IMS developers creating international standards for education.

"On Friday, the tech giant announced a partnership with Moodle Partners to create a bundle called Learning Design Core, which includes IBM's new army of PHP scripters and Moodle's socio-constructivist education modules..."

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Re: Pinch me!

by Vu Hung - Saturday, February 26, 2005, 3:35 PM

"God bless Moodle". Very good news, congratulations.

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Re: Pinch me!

by Art Lader - Saturday, February 26, 2005, 9:07 PM

"IBM is putting its corporate heft behind a popular open-source Web development technology called Moodle, in a move meant to reach out to a broader set of IMS developers creating international standards for education. "

Don,

I am having trouble finding the web page where this statement is located. Do you think you could provide a direct link? I would really appreciate it.

Thanks,
Art

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Re: Pinch me!

by Martin Dougiamas - Saturday, February 26, 2005, 9:50 PM

Art, look closer, Don is winking his eyelashes off!

Fantastic news about IBM's support for PHP, though, hopefully it will help legitimise PHP to the few sectors who don't yet understand how good scripting languages are for collaborative development. I'm also hoping that some of the effects of this partnership may trickle down into improvements for PHP itself but I'm not holding my breath on that one.

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Re: Pinch me!

by Art Lader - Saturday, February 26, 2005, 10:07 PM

I hate it when I miss a joke!

Thanks, Martin,
Art

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Re: Pinch me!

by Don Hinkelman - Saturday, February 26, 2005, 10:19 PM

No one has pinched me out of my dream!

"On Sunday, IBM announced its appointment of Art Lader as Chief Education Officer, heading up a Nobel-prize winning team of vice-presidents including John Dewey and Lev Vygotsky. Their job--collaborate and code a comprehensive map of Moodle 3.0 due in 2007, and direct resources to ensure ten million schools in every corner of the planet can use it. "

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Re: Pinch me!

by David Scotson - Sunday, February 27, 2005, 7:30 AM

That announcement is another small victory for common sense, however I would feel more trust in the judgement of the journalist and his unnamed industry source if either had mentioned that the cloudscape database which forms a big part of this announcement is actually written in... Java!

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