Tab Sweep - Competition
Jun 25th, 2008 by sharps
Websphere is 10 years old and in an eWeek.com article by Daryl K. Taft, Steve Mills (IBM’s software head honcho) is quoted as saying that he’s “not particularly concerned with competition” in this space, particularly from open-source offerings and “there are no plans to open-source WebSphere”, “Something of this class of software could never be free”. Hmm, well according to the analysts and customers I speak to - WAS is under threat from JBoss and JBoss is an alternative. Oh, and Steve - you acquired Gluecode remember. A competitor in denial is a good thing.
If you are an Oracle or former BEA middleware customer and are still uncertain which products Oracle will shit-can - well it seems that Oracle doesn’t know either but they are letting you vote. I applaud the democratic proces but isn’t this the kind of detail you work out before spending $6bn of your shareholder’s money ?
[Update]
The poll doesn’t seem to have anything to do with Oracle - it’s sponsored by TechTarget - I have no idea why. They seem to have made the decision already - according to the Register.
Finally - can you please get off Yahoo’s case about departing execs. - this is just mean 
