Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Oracle Kills Commercial Support For GlassFish: Was It Inevitable?

Posted by timothy on from the allocation-of-resources dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Oracle acquired GlassFish when it acquired Sun Microsystems, and now — like OpenSolaris and OpenOffice — the company has announced it will no longer support a commercial version of the product. Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. said in an interview the decision wasn't exactly a surprise: "The only company that was putting any real investment in GlassFish was Oracle," Milinkovich said. "Nobody else was really stepping up to the plate to help. If you never contributed anything to it, you can't complain when something like this happens." An update to the open source version is still planned for 2014." GlassFish is an open source application server.

5 of 125 comments (clear)

  1. With all due respect to glassfish by binaryhermit · · Score: 4, Funny

    What the hell is a glass fish?

    1. Re:With all due respect to glassfish by wirefarm · · Score: 3, Funny

      I figure it might be this little guy:
      http://www.theamazingpics.com/transparent-fish/

      --
      -- My Weblog.
    2. Re:With all due respect to glassfish by hawguy · · Score: 5, Funny

      I figure it might be this little guy:
      http://www.theamazingpics.com/transparent-fish/

      Ahh, thanks, it's very clear now!

  2. Hell has frozen over by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't believe it. Right there in the summary.

    GlassFish is an open source application server.

  3. You are such a Java apologist by smittyoneeach · · Score: 3, Funny

    It was also created to boost chip and disk sales, too.
    And frameworks. Don't forget frameworks.

    --
    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear