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> Yes, but a RI doesn't have to be full-fledged, clustered, easily administered, extensible, supported, etc...
MG>It doesnt hurt to have that capability!
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> Glassfish under Sun's lead was poised to become the leading contender to the tier-1 app servers, given their big-time investments in GF.
MG>Absolutely
I have a hard time seeing Oracle investing in something that will cannibalize sales of WLS.
MG>WLS and GF would merge..taking the best of both worlds easy admin from GF
MG>and Oracle DB Connection pooling from WLS
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> They do need to have something to compete with RedHat/JBoss AS
MG>True
so GF might fill a niche there, but they would still have to throttle-investment so that they can motivate the price-gap to WLS.
MG>They could merge the technologies as with OracleAppServer/Weblogic..take the best MG>features of OAS and merge to WL..same here ..take the WebLogicServer capabilities MG>and merge to GF ..i dont see 2 servers where one would do nicely..
MG>what do the GF leads think?
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