Laszlo profiled in VarBusiness article on IBM’s open source strategy
The December 5, 2005 issue of VAR Business features a cover story on IBM's open source strategy. Quoting from the opening 2 paragraphs:
Big Blue's Bet Pays Off
IBM's open-source gamble creates opportunities for partners
By Ed Scannell, VARBusiness
From the December 05, 2005 VARBusiness
"Eighteen months ago, Laszlo Systems was a 2-year-old start-up selling proprietary software tools to build Web-based applications. Living off venture-capital money and generating very modest revenue, Laszlo Systems president and CEO Steve Ciesinski worried about the future. But then he made a bold move that paid off and captured the attention of one of the world's biggest IT vendors.
Ciesinski took his tools open source. And the product, OpenLaszlo, caught the attention of IBM, which helped to create a developer kit for the toolset and placed it into its Eclipse foundation for further dissemination. All told, downloads of the product went from 200 per month to 9,000. The story stands as an example of open source's growing acceptance and the market legitimacy that comes from having IBM's backing."
More media coverage of OpenLaszlo is aggregated at:
http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/MediaCoverage