IBM should buy out this application

Should it, really? Did you say 'IBM'? Or was it, ehm, Lenovo?

You know, the concept behind EIO is not at all new. It was revolutionary 10 years ago, but now we have better implementations of what here has been done in JVM.

Kudos to EIO developers, though. The product is seemingly quite usable, given the confined space of Java layer, and a strange data format which has been given an unappropriate importance.

I'd never waste a second thought on a concept like this. It might be quite a deed for an academic comunity to push it. Given a closed company--or a closed country--it might even prove usable to some extent. However, it has got no chance of survival in the wild. And no such chance should be awarded to it. Ever.

Yours,
Waran