there is a book called "beyond fear" with a collection of all these
FUDs.. and a lot of speculations and conspiracy theories :) the good,
the bad and the ugly about guessing the future.. you will love it :)
at the end you have no guarantee at all (unless your own death some
day).. you never had and you will never have.. so, find a way to deal
with it, or continue in your paranoid track :) good luck :) eheh
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Kristian Rink <lists_at_zimmer428.net> wrote:
> 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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