Re: [ox-en] Competition between Free and proprietary software
- From: "Florian v. Samson" <fsamson unix-ag.uni-kl.de>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:15:57 +0100
Hi,
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 08:48:17PM [PHONE NUMBER REMOVED], Stefan Merten wrote:
Some of you may have noticed that finally BEA has been bought by
Oracle. BEA was one of the big players in the field of middleware and
especially J2EE/SOA technology. With JBoss in this field there is also
a big and ever increasing open source application stack (backed by a
company).
Today I came across this blog entry:
http://blogs.jboss.com/blog/sconnolly/2008/01/18/A_BEA_utiful_Week.txt
which relates to this
http://theabstracttruth.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/jboss-and-possibly-tomcat-should-never-have-happened/
The author of the second also reacted to the first one:
http://theabstracttruth.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/its-not-about-open-source/
The blog entries deal with the competition between proprietary
software vendors with Free Software and thus are probably interesting
here.
I found the last of the three blog entries quite insightful and largely
agree with Bob Pasker's view.
Thanks,
Florian
P.S.: As most on the list supposedly are not familiar with the history
of middle wares and their market:
- "F500" adresses the "Fortune500" list of the worlds 500 biggest
enterprises
- Hence the middle ware market is a billion $ market
- Weblogic was bought by BEA in the end of the nineties
- Both bloggers are seniors in this field
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