Exolab is not dead, it has morphed into Intalio and has focused its business
plan away from the Open Source for now. Assaf came to talk to us at J1 and
it seems they will try to leverage the platform for other things. OpenEJB
is another story and I had the impression that RMH was flying solo but I
could be wrong. As far as we are concerned there is so much open source
talent on that roaster that they are always welcome to come and work with us
;-) We think it is good to keep these guys focused on the open source
business (IMHO)
There, I said it.
regards
marc
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rickard �berg
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 11:49 AM
> To: jBoss Developer
> Subject: Re: ExoLab (was Re: SV: [jBoss-Dev] Transactions, please!)
>
>
> Hi!
>
> Gary Shea wrote:
> > I'm not sure what you mean about the www.exoffice.com site, I don't go
> > there much; it's old news (and presumably good news) that exoffice is
> > acquired/absorbed/whatever by intalio.
>
> ExOffice morphed into Intalio more like. New name. Old stuff.
>
> > the exolab.org site looks about the same as usual, i.e., not that
> > up to date,
>
> Exactly.
>
> > however, they've released 0.8.4, 0.8.5, 0.8.6, and 0.8.7
> > since the page was last updated (O'Reilly Java conference). The
> > latest release was not long before J1.
>
> You're talking about Castor, right?
>
> > >From my perspective, exolab and jboss look about the same in terms
> > of liveliness; everything on the sites is pretty much out of date,
>
> Entire jBoss content was updated less than a month ago. News page is
> updated weekly. We've been too busy doing things to update the site,
> hopefully that will improve.
>
> > the mailing list is active
>
> I'm on some of the ExoLab mailing lists. I think we have different
> notions of "active".
>
> > and the key developers are active on
> > the mailing list,
>
> When I say "active" I would mean "actively discussing key topics related
> to the project", and not just "politely answering user questions".
>
> > the documentation is non-existant or out of date,
>
> Quite. Because of the insane amount of development being done on the
> actual software. Once things cool down (not quite yet) we will attend to
> these matters (and when I say "we" I don't mean "I" or even "Telkel". I
> mean We.)
>
> > the examples are all broken.
>
> Not quite sure what you're talking about here. I need to look into that.
>
> > Chaos reigns.
>
> Absolutely. Wouldn't want it any other way ;-) Chaos is the food upon
> which creativity feasts :-)
>
> /Rickard
>
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