former IBM dev here (6 years in different areas). I hope they let you work on an island and don&#x27;t force you to use their tooling&#x2F;approve listed of open source software.<p>IBM has long embraced the OSS community (I loved LTC), but the process to release&#x2F;use anything OSS was not good (to put it nicely) and was one of the many reasons I left.<p>I worked on a project that was on an island, and while it was more efficient than normal IBM dev, it was still 10x slower and tons of red tape then what was required to make a competitive product (and stay competitive).  IBM is big and ultimately has to protect themselves - IMO ultimately it gets in your way of making a good&#x2F;competitive product.<p>I like what StrongLoop does for the node community, and I do indeed hope you are successful and nothing changes. But to be honest I am very skeptical.