This interesting insight popped up on the jugleaders mailing list and was posted by Stephan Jansen from BEJUG/parleys.com and I think it should be shared and bring some light into things as well.
> Guys,>> During an IOUC session last week, Ted Farrell debriefed us on his > view> on the Hudson debacle (too bad it wasn't recorded).> But basically it > came to this (and please correct me if I'm wrong):>> Kohsuke Kawaguchi (aka > KK) has worked for many years on Hudson during> business hours paid by Sun > Microsystems.> KK feels that he is Mr. Hudson and could make money with the > project> by taking "his" baby and the community over to CloudBees. The VC> > behind Cloudbess even placed some pressure on different parties> involved to > make this happen!>> It's obvious that Oracle wouldn't allow this to happen.>> > Now the fork has happened and both parties can now compete on> different > implementations. Oracle (fyi - Ted Farrell is chief> architect for Tools and > Middleware at Oracle) is fully committed to> continue the investment in > Hudson (see also> http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Home)>> There's > always two sides to a story and when money and pride is> involved it can get > very ugly.>> Cheers,>> Stephan -- 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.
