Red Hat Hit With Patent Suit Over JBoss

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 4, 2009 @04:34AM from the at-least-it's-not-about-perfume dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A small software company is claiming that Red Hat's JBoss open source middleware violates one of its patents and is asking a court to stop Red Hat from distributing the product. Software Tree LLC claims that JBoss infringes on its database patent for 'exchanging data and commands between an object oriented system and a relational system.' Software Tree's partners include Microsoft, and that the suit was filed in Eastern Texas, which is known as a plaintiff's paradise for patent actions."

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Re:Civil Procedure Question by Tubal-Cain · 2009-03-04 09:05 · Score: 0, Redundant

How much money would you lose by not selling a product in a state as large as Texas?
Going strictly by population size? About 33% more than not selling in the New York metropolitan area.
This, of course, does not factor in the larger costs associated with being able to get a tech to anywhere in Texas compared to getting around New York City, the higher cost-of-living in New York, and other variables.