ZDNet: Printer Friendly - IBM drops patent bombshell Jim Boak, CTO of IONA Technologies, a provider of ebXML-compliant Web services and application integration software, wonders whether there had been a breakdown in communication. "I've seen IBM do this in the past," said Boak, "where they end up saying 'jeez, we didn't mean to do that'. It doesn't make sense for them to spend years and years donating to ebXML and then make it so nobody can use it."