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Re: Sun, IBM and future of Glassfish project?

From: Felipe Gaúcho <fgaucho_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:01:44 +0100

not exactly sure about the bibliography, but it is a book about the
end of Java - and its replacement by super fantastic technologies..

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Sarah kho <sarah.kho_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 Gaúcho <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
>> >
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>> > 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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