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Re: Sun, IBM and future of Glassfish project?

From: Felipe Gaúcho <fgaucho_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:09:43 +0100

you can start with this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Java-Bruce-Tate/dp/0596100949
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/10/12.html



2009/3/23 Felipe Gaúcho <fgaucho_at_gmail.com>:
> 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
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > 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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