Websphere Community edition aka Gluecode aka geronimo

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... oder was auch immer kommt diese Woche raus:

Vielleicht der endgültige Beweis dafür, dass IBMs Geschäftsmodell darin besteht so viel Verwirrung zu stiften, dass nur noch ein paar extra geschulte Consultants von IBM Global Services da irgendwie durchblicken.

(Geronimo ist ein freier J2EE Server. Genauer gesagt ein Fork des populären JBoss Server. Gluecode ist die Firma, in der die meisten Geronimo Entwickler arbeiteten und die IBM aufgekauft hat.

volles Interview:
http://www.oetrends.com/news.php?action=view_record&idnum=487

”We’re taking the code directly from ASF, under the Apache license, straight from Geronimo and doing some value-add around it and re-packaging it, and you can consider [WAS-CE] a distribution,” said Scott Cosby, IBM’s Gluecode transition executive told OET. [IBM is making WAS CE available at no cost. Technical Support is available from IBM starting at $900 per server for an annual subscription.]

Motivationen
a) leichtgewichtig:

So, what was behind IBM’s decision to offer a free J2EE app server, using Geronimo? “When IBM looks at Websphere, there’s a picture that we has been concentrating at the high-end or midrange IT [department],” Cosby said. “Making a light-weight J2EE option available opens doors for a customer to say, ‘Wait a minute. I have Java skills in house, so why can’t I use it here?”

b) open source from a trusted vendor

So, what was behind IBM’s decision to offer a free J2EE app server, using Geronimo? “When IBM looks at Websphere, there’s a picture that we has been concentrating at the high-end or midrange IT [department],” Cosby said. “Making a light-weight J2EE option available opens doors for a customer to say, ‘Wait a minute. I have Java skills in house, so why can’t I use it here?”