GlassFish has a different market than WebLogic, WebSphere and OC4J.
GlassFish users and paying customers will never pay as much money for
middleware as the WebLogic, WebShere and OC4J cost because they just
can't afford it, or their own products sell for much less than the cost
of middleware. I don't think these customers can be converted to paying
WLS or OC4J customers. Instead they will goto JBoss, Geronimo or Tomcat
if Oracle kills off GlassFish. Or, Oracle can maintain GlassFish and
keep the paying customers, hopefully attracting more paying customers
that are currently using JBoss or Tomcat.
glassfish_at_javadesktop.org wrote:
> I'm not sure you could merge GF and WLS from a commercial stand-point. I believe the customer groups are quite different.
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> Integrating Oracle app server and WLS was much easier in that regards, they both had a closed-source license + support business model.
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> I think it's quite a bit more difficult to reconsile GF + WLS, I basically see two approaches:
> * Create two offerings one that is cheap / open source "low-end" and the other closed source "high-end" and let them live separate lives
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> * Merge GF + WLS, though I don't see too much that GF can contribute that WLS doesn't already have ( at least in GF 2.X , GF 3 might have something to contribute, but I'm not sure exactly what it would be). Have two WLS offerings (as today) high / low end
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> Either way they need to create enough differentiators between the offerings to not cannibalize sales which makes the first approach as bad as the next I'm afraid.
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> The sad part is that if GF had a year or two more to build a community, it might have had enough traction to continue, now I'm not too optimistic unfortunately :(
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