Oracle Kills Commercial Support For GlassFish: Was It Inevitable?

Posted by timothy on Friday November 8, 2013 @05:38PM 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.

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Re:With all due respect to glassfish by SeaFox · 2013-11-08 20:05 · Score: 4, Interesting

I figure it might be this little guy:
http://www.theamazingpics.com/transparent-fish/
Ahh, thanks, it's very clear now!
Well Sun recognized how much people appreciated transparency from a company. The Oracle is shrouded in mystery, though.
Re:WTF is Glassfish? by 2fuf · 2013-11-08 21:56 · Score: 5, Interesting

Sounds like this is wonderful news for you guys. You both have clients that are loaded with money, and who desperately need Glassfish support for their production environment.
And now Oracle stops offering support? Dude, this is the best business opportunity you'll get in your life. Quit whatever you're doing and start offering Glassfish support yourself. If it's really that big a deal, companies will be all over you.