Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
These are encouraging signs that Oracle will continue to invest in OpenJDK and that it won’t follow the same fate as some other Sun Open Source projects like Open Solaris. I’ve long believed that OpenJDK has the opportunity to become the Linux Kernel for Enterprise developers. Kurian discussed the roadmap for JDK 7 and JDK [...]
Posted in java on Mar 8th, 2010
I previously highlighted the fate of OpenSSO – a test case for Oracle and a living experiment for Open Source – possibly allowing us to understand how or whether a project really can outlive it’s corporate backer. Well, it seems that another piece of the Sun OSS portfolio has floated adrift from the Oracle mother-ship. [...]
I guess there’s a chance that we’ll know more tomorrow but regarding the future of Java under Oracle’s control – I’m still neutral to optimistic and sticking to what I said 6 months ago : DZone: With Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, are you concerned at all about some of the potential changes that will come [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28th, 2009
Over the last ten years – every year has been proclaimed the year that Java dies. And every year people are proven wrong and I think that will continue to happen for another 20 or 30 years. To put it into perspective COBOL, another fairly sucessful language is 50 (fifty) years old this month. Other [...]
Posted in TabSweep on Apr 30th, 2009
Another couple of super-busy months here at JBoss. If anything the pace of new releases and new projects is increasing. Here are some of the more prominent Community announcements I managed to bookmark : JBoss App Server 5.1.0 CR1 – 5.1 is a pretty big milestone – it includes the new Jopr powered embedded console [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 20th, 2009
I’d like to think of myself as an informed prognosticator having worked for Sun for almost 9 years; but this is prognostication nonetheless. I missed my chance to say what I thought of an IBM acquisition but I’ll start by saying – I think I preferred it – it probably would’ve been a better outcome [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 4th, 2009
I just noticed the JBoss AS 5.0.0 GA community release downloads had a strong start over the break – ~40k in 3 weeks – that’s more than 5.0.0 CR2 accumulated in 3 months (note I’m only looking at the downloads reported from JBoss.org). OpenLogic have the results of a survey on Open Source web / [...]
Posted in Business on Oct 7th, 2008
The Websphere Marketing team must be overjoyed to read the recent EDC report – “Application Servers 2008 Rankings” by Janel Garvin (it’s free but you need to register). The report is almost too good to be true for Big Blue – Not only does IBM win outright but it also kicks BEA / Oracle’s butt [...]
Sacha Labourey on JBoss AS 5, OSGi and beyond on DZone. Bill Burke on REST and JAX-RS. btw there’s a whole Microzone on Java Lobby / DZone dedicated to JBoss. You can now catch up with videos from the JBoss community about JBoss people and technology on YouTube, blip.tv and Streamocracy, Tha VAR Guy on [...]
Posted in TabSweep on Jun 25th, 2008
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 [...]