Oracle to buy JBoss (and others)

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 10, 2006 @05:05AM from the offset-by-the-layoffs-i'm-sure dept.

tfritsch writes "According to a story at News.com it looks like Oracle's shopping spree is to continue. The JBoss acquisition could be big - what does it mean for the future of the JBoss Application Server?" From the article: "Oracle makes the majority of its revenue from its database and applications business. And it has its own line of Java middleware, which competes with JBoss' software, and a set of Java developer tools. However, Oracle has been warming up to open-source products, including Zend's PHP development tools, over the past year because its corporate customers are increasingly using open source software, according to company executives. "

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Re:Don't trust Oracle by Philip+K+Dickhead · 2006-02-10 05:25 · Score: -1, Troll

JBoss is the best performing JVM out there, bar none. I just got done running a 64-bit JVM "shootout" between Sun, IBM and JBoss, for a BIG online auction company. The IBM folks were 'stunned' at what JBoss bits were doing, versus their JVM. We are talking about Solaris x86, Linux and Windows Server 2003 r2 X-64. Across the board.

I don't know what the problem at BEA is. I guess that a JVM does not a line of business make...

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Drink more Kool-Aid (TM)... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-02-10 05:57 · Score: -1, Troll

Dumbass.
Re:Fork off the companies? by imaginaryelf · 2006-02-10 06:04 · Score: -1, Troll

If you fork, you must contribute your code back to the main base.

If you fork, Marc will sue your ass.