ibm kauft sich bei Geronimo ein für low cost j2ee

[Marinero Atlántico]

Hi,

Geronimo ist der J2EE Server von Apache.jakarta.
Wird Websphere jetzt Geronimo? Oder Geronimo Websphere? Oder alle Brüder?

IBM has announced its purchase of GlueCode Software, one of the new firms supporting open source integration, today. The purchase price is estimated at being under $100 million.

GlueCode has a product, called JOE, that packages Geronimo with a number of other open source products to create an enterprise portal, and employs a number of Geronimo committers. IBM's product line for Java centers around their Websphere application server and products tied to it, including WSAD, Rational, and WebSphere MQ, targeted towards large enterprises.

According to the press release, IBM will become an active contributor to Geronimo, and will contribute software to Eclipse to allow its use for developing, debugging, and deploying Geronimo-based application software.

One industry insider commented that GlueCode's acquisition reflects pressure on the larger players to build on an open-source foundation, and focus on adding value to that, at least for the lower-end markets.

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Further, what do you think Geronimo's future will be? Will WebSphere gain characteristics of Geronimo, or vice versa? After all, most Geronimo and Derby contributors are now employed by IBM. Does IBM have too much power?

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=33830
Ich hab extrem keinen Bock mehr auf den Unsinn. Ich mache Notes, Springframework, JBoss und werde jetzt endlich .net lernen.

oder wie es bei Suleiman so schön heisst:

It's astounding that while the outside world proves to us again and again that separation of church and state is a good thing, and is a winning recipe in terms of stability, growth, and fairness, we in the java community seem hellbent on marching in the opposite direction. No longer will market forces or the common good based on rational clear arguments be the guiding hand for our future. Instead a group of rabid religious fuckwits with too much time on their hand and too much power and influence decide that open source must be preached everywhere and everyday. Damned be Apache, and damned be the the legions of filthy masses who do nothing more than clap idiotically like trained seals at the world around them. Your Pavlovian reactions are a disgrace to humanity.

http://www.jroller.com/page/fate/20050507#death_to_apache