> Second, the price of the license will drop if independent > implementations are allowed. For App Servers, I think the barrier of > entry is in the difficulty implementating the spec not in the licensing. > It's going to be JBoss, Weblogic, and Webspere for a long time. As > such, BEA and IBM will be thrilled to see a lower price -- assuming the > price was high.
All this makes me wonder what influence the recently reported comments by Sun, disparaging OS access to J2EE in favour of their commercial interests, and the bad reaction that it got here and elsewhere, has had on the recent JSPA development. I'm a cynic when it comes to the motives of Selfless Big Business, and as such I see the JSPA announcement having the effect of oil poured on waters increasingly troubled on a number of seperate fronts. Perhaps thats being disingenuous towards Sun, or perhaps their PR does have that muscle, I honestly don't know. Either way I'd like to add my hearty congratulations to all the guys invloved in putting the Apache case, and hope that Sun is as good as its word, because if I understand the issue correctly it could lead to interesting times here and elsewhere. d. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
