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Company has floated project trial balloons on site for 10 years
It's been 10 years since IBM launched its alphaWorks project, an unprecedented initiative to foster collaboration among the company's far-flung technology researchers. But alphaWorks, from the beginning, went far beyond closed-door teamwork among IBM's developers. It also encompassed customers, providing them with early insight into new projects, as well as access to sample code, binaries and documents.
In all that time, the site has hosted more than 700 projects and emerging tech demos.
Bearing in mind that nearly all alphaWorks projects were akin to alpha-level products-that is, not ready for prime time like those on IBM's developer-Works site-the portal is a success. As the project reaches the decade mark, the site now hosts the first round of IBM's potential software-as-a-service offerings, under...