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Re: Request for comments : FishCAT, the way forward

From: Richard Kolb <rjdkolb_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 09:07:39 +0200

Hi

On 3 July 2010 05:53, Vladimir Perlov <vladperl_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

> > Indeed. But talking about the vision / limitation evaluation, I wonder
> > whether FishCAT in itself will be a "business" of its own by any
> > chance? Will FishCAT, embedded into the development (and marketing /
> > sales) process of GlassFish application server, actually even remotely
> > qualify as something akin to a "business entity"? I think tackling this
> > question is rather interesting - are "we" more or less an entity of our
> > own, which is likely to achieve its own objectives, or are we, indeed,
> > just a "solution provider" mainly in the GlassFish context? I think
> > this partially is a decision we have to make, partially it is a
> > decision Oracle as driving force behind GlassFish will have prepared
> > for us. :)
>
> Again I doubt that Oracle has defined clear policy on it.
> After all they never had a similar program in place.
>

True, but I don't think Sun's Open Source views and culture just disappeared
:)

Some thing for you :
http://medianetwork.oracle.com/media/show/15259?n=playlist&nid=86


> It would be interesting to know how Richard "tackling" this question :)
>

Well, I always believe more in what people 'do' than 'say'
So let's test it out :)

regards
Richard.