Comments on: Websphere Children’s Edition http://bill.burkecentral.com/2007/08/09/websphere-childrens-edition/ Software plumbing using middleware wrenches Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:53:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: douglas dooley http://bill.burkecentral.com/2007/08/09/websphere-childrens-edition/#comment-89 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:16:45 +0000 http://bill.burkecentral.com/2007/08/09/websphere-childrens-edition/#comment-89 Glasfish is the Sun application server program, and the best organized competitor to JBoss on nearly every front, you should be taking them seriously. Outside of branding, the Sun app server has been continuous in-house development for 8 years, with the OSS model added in ’05.

I find the co-opetition model between Sun and JBoss to be the most compelling promise of a successful Sun app server, as it allows the only true scenario of portable components and apps. The more customers believe that they are not locked in to a specific app server platform, the more they will be willing to deploy enterprise apps, and the larger the market grows.

Not sure what your role is these days at RH/JBoss, but if you can continue the good will around pure portability between Sun and JBoss, the more opportunities for developers and ISVs.

]]> By: billburke http://bill.burkecentral.com/2007/08/09/websphere-childrens-edition/#comment-73 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:55:07 +0000 http://bill.burkecentral.com/2007/08/09/websphere-childrens-edition/#comment-73 Jeremy, I don’t know about Glassfish. Sun changes their business strategy every quarter, so I couldn’t comment on them. I thought they had switched to a pure OSS model, but I’m not sure.

]]> By: Jeremy Norris http://bill.burkecentral.com/2007/08/09/websphere-childrens-edition/#comment-72 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:18:37 +0000 http://bill.burkecentral.com/2007/08/09/websphere-childrens-edition/#comment-72 If the project is dominated by a vendor which has a competing closed-source, expensive product, the project will never get anywhere.

In your opinion, does this comment apply to the sun dominated Glassfish project?

]]> By: Tom Elrod http://bill.burkecentral.com/2007/08/09/websphere-childrens-edition/#comment-66 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:08:09 +0000 http://bill.burkecentral.com/2007/08/09/websphere-childrens-edition/#comment-66 http://java.sun.com/javaee/overview/compatibility.jsp

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