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Re: Sun, IBM and future of Glassfish project?

From: Sarah kho <sarah.kho_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:28:30 +0430

Felipe,

Can you be more specific which book you are refering to?

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Beyond+Fear&x=0&y=0

Thanks

2009/3/23 Felipe Gaścho <fgaucho_at_gmail.com>

> 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
> >
> > --
> > Kristian Rink
> > cell : +49 176 2447 2771
> > business: http://www.planconnect.de
> > personal: http://pictorial.zimmer428.net
> > "Past midnight. Never knew such silence.
> > The earth might be uninhabited..."
> > //beckett / krapp's last tape//
> >
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