How about this, GF is currently eating up IBM WS licenses. I know a few large sites that are switching and it is saving the a bundle... huge amounts of money. When these things happen (something I've seen it happen in the past), IBM tends to sniff about but rarely do they buy.
Kirk jharby wrote: > I am not a lawyer either but FWIW, suppose IBM acquired Sun and IBM > wanted to get complete control of the Java Platform specs - this sort > of control could allow them to elevate WebSphere and other products in > the marketplace. The agreement I gave in that link is between the > participant and Sun (which would now be IBM), not the participant and > the JCP or some other open organization thus IBM could terminate those > agreements - of course it couldn't claim the IP already developed as > theirs but could prevent other vendors from having any influence in > the future spec directions. > > On Mar 26, 4:01 pm, Van Riper <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:18 PM, jharby <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The agreement to join the JCP really >>> gives a good deal of power to Sun >>> -http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/JSPA2.pdf >>> >> I'm not disagreeing with assessment that Sun has more than its fair >> share of influence in the activities of the JCP. However, I don't see >> it being due to the structure of this legal agreement. I'm no lawyer, >> but, this agreement seems to me to be mainly about making clear that >> contributions to the JCP must be unencumbered IP. Not really seeing >> where this particular legal document gives Sun any particular power >> that IBM would inherit through acquisition. Please enlighten me. >> >> Thanks, Van >> >> -- >> | Michael "Van" Riper >> | JUG-USA Interim President >> |https://jug-usa.dev.java.net >> ---- >> | Silicon Valley Web JUG >> | mailto:[email protected] >> |http://www.meetup.com/sv-web-jug/ >> ---- >> | Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group >> | mailto:[email protected] >> |http://www.meetup.com/sv-gtug/ >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
