Who Controls Vert.x: Red Hat, VMware, Neither?

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 12, 2013 @07:47AM from the reply-hazy-try-again dept.

snydeq writes "Simon Phipps sheds light on a fight for control over Vert.x, an open source project for scalable Web development that 'seems immunized to corporate control.' 'Vert.x is an asynchronous, event-driven open source framework running on the JVM. It supports the most popular Web programming languages, including Java, JavaScript, Groovy, Ruby, and Python. It's getting lots of attention, though not necessarily for the right reasons. A developer by the name of Tim Fox, who worked at VMware until recently, led the Vert.x project — before VMware's lawyers forced him to hand over the Vert.x domain, blog, and Google Group. Ironically, the publicity around this action has helped introduce a great technology with an important future to the world. The dustup also illustrates how corporate politics works in the age of open source: As corporate giants grasp for control, community foresight ensures the open development of innovative technology carries on.'"

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Just uninstalled Java by gtirloni · 2013-01-12 08:20 · Score: 2, Funny

Sorry.

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du wuht? by sgt+scrub · 2013-01-12 10:23 · Score: 1, Funny

A web framework based on Java? Isn't that kind of like a network appliance based on Windows?

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Re:Nothing new under the Sun by Tough+Love · 2013-01-12 12:30 · Score: 3, Funny

So does that mean that VMWare will soon be bought by Oracle?

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