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IBM buys Gluecode
karvind writes "After acquisition of Ascential, Big Blue has bought the application management firm Gluecode. From the article: IBM plans to allow its customers to download Gluecode software, develop their own application server software, and begin using it -- all at no cost. IBM also said it will become an active contributor to the Apache Geronimo open source project and will expand the existing community of developers."
I thought IBM were trying to save money by getting rid of 13,000 jobs?
IBM has campaining for open source J2SE.
When Classpath is turning almost compliant, Apache tries to help it's accepance by requesting
them to move the code to the Apache Licence.
The man behind it is a VP at Gluecode.
IBM buys Gluecode.
Also there was a rumor on jpackage about an undisclose three letter company that
was getting them to test a free j2se impementation.
the only problem jboss has is it's use of the lgpl. you can't get outside corporate sponsorship for core projects (eclipse) by using the lgpl. with geronimo, any company will be able to donate some serious cash to its development and then make money off packaging, selling, and supporting the product.
i'd guess ibm went with linux only because they had already a corporate server room presence (RHEL/SuSE), and the BSD's most likely have much less deployments.
Competition is one thing, competition without purpose is another.
Right now there are two major J2EE engines out there. JBOSS and JONAS what is the purpose of a third? Both JBOSS and JONAS are certified by SUN, both of them are proven enterprise ready, both of them have active developers and userbase.
So I'll ask it again. What is the purpose of a third open source J2EE container? Is there some missing functionality tlhey want to implement?
evil is as evil does