Apparentely I did not pay attention to those many gremlins working out for Sun and IBM in Jakarta and that are so closed... doh !
See Marc Fleury's interview. --- http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/03/20/jboss_interview.html [...] Anglin: There has been much speculation of late regarding JBoss and Apache Jakarta. Could JBoss become a Jakarta project? Fleury and Mason: No, we don't see that happening. Jakarta is not an open source project in the pure community sense anymore. It is dominated by Sun/IBM employees. We are more focused on growing our own professional services organization through JBoss Group. As such, we form a hyper-efficient consultancy, where our open source product base enables us to achieve an unparalleled degree of efficiency in sharing and communicating knowledge. You may feel that our open source nature limits us here, but never when it comes to high-level knowledge. The ability to see and reproduce source code does not automatically give people the understanding of how it's used or how it can be optimized. If they do achieve that on on their own, that's great. For those who want more insight, we sell the services to get them there. The second reason for our dissatisfaction with Apache has to do with problems in the 3.2 version of Tomcat (the new one is better). When those problems arose, we grew close to Jetty, a competing open source project backed by MortBay Consulting in Australia. We met these guys, spent time with them, and we found there were a lot of similarities -- they are a husband-and-wife-led company dedicated to their product because it is their business. It just happens that we relate better to people with goals and expectations similar to ourselves --dedicated independent professionals. JBoss Group is about supporting and promoting that way of life and work, which, in our opinion, is conducive to the development of great software. [...] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
