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JBoss to Apply for Official J2EE Certification
Jonboy X writes "CNet has an article detailing the resolution of a long-standing feud between open-source J2EE server vendor JBoss and Sun. It seems they've decided to break down and shell out the clams to be certified by Sun. Quoth Bob Bickel, JBoss's vice president of corporate development and strategy: 'Our core base of developers, a lot of them say they don't give a damn...But the reality is that a lot of big companies who are using this are moving into production.' JBoss gives away its server software and survives on support contracts."
Not only do I rejoice that JBoss will obtain J2EE certification (you don't doubt it, if they're shelling out the $$, do you?), I *need* them to obtain it.
The single reason that my company gave to me for not using JBoss, and, instead, settling on the expensive, monolithic, do-it-this-way-or-be-damned "application server" from WebLogic was... "JBoss is not J2EE certified."
I would have given my right nut to have been able to say "oh, yes they are!"
We're still dealing with rollout/stability/cost/upgrade-track issues that came along with the "priviledge" of paying tens-of-thousands of dollars for something that is absolutely free. Heck, we could have afforded to hire a brand spankin' new programmer JUST to keep an eye on these servers, had we used JBoss, and saved the money for licenses, upgrades, down-time, over-time (etc).
I just don't get it... all this press about open-source, not to mention rapant capitalism/downsizing/squeezing every penny out of everything, and yet the dolts in the corner offices still act all stupid, shelling out megabucks for some marketing-driven, bug-laden piece of crap software - when all the while, high-quality, *actually usable* software is there for the taking for zip, zero, nada. I just don't get it...