Its funny to see Novell re-hash a 10 month old press release that it is bundling Websphere Children’s Edition with Suse. My favorite quote from this newsclip is:
Users looking for more advanced features are steered towards paid WebSphere products, which offer more advanced features.
This is why we will never take Apache Geranium seriously. As long as IBM is the major contributor to the project, they’ll never be interested in elevating Geranimo to the feature set of JBoss. It will always be a hobbled platform. This is why you should always read the fine print in vendor friendly open source projects. If the project is dominated by a vendor which has a competing closed-source, expensive product, the project will never get anywhere.
Bill the Plumber 
Aug 09, 2007 @ 17:08:09
http://java.sun.com/javaee/overview/compatibility.jsp
Aug 13, 2007 @ 15:18:37
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?
Aug 13, 2007 @ 15:55:07
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.
Aug 15, 2007 @ 18:16:45
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.