Re: Sun

2003-05-28 Thread Steven Noels
On 28/05/2003 9:47 Pier Fumagalli wrote: Going back and looking at the past 5 years, actually, I think that in this case, the guy from Sun actually has a point (Rudy? Who the hell is he?). Oddly enough in the J2EE/JBoss saga, I don't see Sun as being the bad guys (but ok, some of us and Mark go

Re: Sun

2003-05-28 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 08:47 AM 5/28/2003 +0100, you wrote: On 28/5/03 0:26 Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good: http://www.theserverside.com/home/thread.jsp?thread_id=19500 Hm... Evil: http://www.shiftat.com/blog/page/werner/20030527#sun_reaffirms_no_jboss_at Indeed... Mark Fleury _is_ evil. He has

Re: Sun

2003-05-28 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 10:08 AM 5/28/2003 +0200, you wrote: On 28/05/2003 9:47 Pier Fumagalli wrote: Going back and looking at the past 5 years, actually, I think that in this case, the guy from Sun actually has a point (Rudy? Who the hell is he?). Oddly enough in the J2EE/JBoss saga, I don't see Sun as being the

Re: Sun

2003-05-28 Thread Pier Fumagalli
On 28/5/03 9:08 Steven Noels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sun should be happy that people create cheap implementations of their APIs. If their own implementations would be any better, they might also be making money of them. ;) Nothing against that, absolutely, but voices are saying that JBoss

Re: Sun

2003-05-28 Thread Steven Noels
On 28/05/2003 10:52 Ceki Gülcü wrote: I concur that. The JBossGroup is playing a very tricky game, and some of what they do will reflect bad upon the entire Open Source community. Rest assured that Werner knows about these tricks since he was involved with JBoss in Europe from the beginning.

Re: Sun

2003-05-28 Thread Steven Noels
On 28/05/2003 10:52 Pier Fumagalli wrote: I fail to see what is the difference between JBoss Group LLC and any other private/public corporation developing a J2EE solution... None. Hence my problem with JBoss when comparing with the ASF situation (which isn't flawless neither, however). I still

Re: Sun

2003-05-28 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Don't you think JBoss' huge success has something to do with Sun's animosity? Every developer I know who has a say on the platform uses JBoss: better product, better documentation, better support, lower price. Don't read me wrong: I'm on the JBoss-side on this, in that *the project*

Re: Sun

2003-05-28 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
On 5/28/03 5:19 AM, Steven Noels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28/05/2003 10:52 Pier Fumagalli wrote: I fail to see what is the difference between JBoss Group LLC and any other private/public corporation developing a J2EE solution... None. Hence my problem with JBoss when comparing with the

Re: Sun

2003-05-28 Thread Nathaniel G. Auvil
--- Pier Fumagalli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I fail to see what is the difference between JBoss Group LLC and any other private/public corporation developing a J2EE solution... Neither do i, provided that corporation gives you their j2ee server for free, with no strings attached; you don't

Re: Sun

2003-05-28 Thread Erik Price
Steven Noels wrote: Don't read me wrong: I'm on the JBoss-side on this, in that *the project* should be able to present itself on a JUG event. This is an interesting discussion. The New England JUG recently hosted Bill Burke, Chief Architect of JBoss Group LLC