Folks;
I'm sure no one really would want to deal with this question at this time,
but as I frequently stumbled across this in discussions with fellow
developers the last couple of days, I feel the need to, well, "put the
finger to a wound" asking what perspectives Glassfish might have given it
really should happen that IBM might acquire Sun sooner or later... I see
that IBM folks, actually, do have a bunch of software offerings addressing
the same target group Glassfish does address, and from that point of view
the current situation of uncertainty (will or will not Glassfish /SJSAS be
continued in case of Sun being acquired by IBM) is surely to some extend
hurting the adoption and public perception of Glassfish.
I know that, overally, in a situation of "business issues" like the given
one, reliable statements are pretty difficult (if possible at all), but
given Glassfish is an open source project, I wonder whether the application
server would be capable of, say, even surviving "being axed by IBM" as an
open-source project (or, eventually, a fork) driven forth by the community
behind it. Put another way: Is there any "Plan B" of what would happen in
case Sun gets sold to Big Blue and they decide to end spending money on
Project Glassfish? What are your thoughts? Any perspectives to eventually
compensate for the given situation of uncertainty about that?
Cheers & all the best,
Kristian
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