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Santiago Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Diethelm Guallar, Gonzalo" wrote:
>
> > I attended a short Oracle presentation on their
> > Portal product, which looks a lot like Jetspeed
> > with bunches of integration to their RDBMS. They
> > talked a lot about their "portlet" concept, and
> > I could verify it is basically the same idea as
> > Jetspeed portlets. What I am looking for is:
> >
> > * Anybody knows whether Jetspeed's idea of portlets
> > borrowed from Oracle's, or the other way around,
> > or none of the above? Just curious.
> >
>
> The same for me. I arrived here too late to know about evolution.
I didn't know about Oracle Portlets before I created Jetspeed. That leaves only
two situations... they borrowed from our idea or just came up with it
independently. I wouldn't rule out independently because it is somewhat
obvious. In fact I was kind of shocked to see Oracle Portlets in PCWeek about 6
months after I started Jetspeed :)
> >
> > * Anybody knows of a technical reference to their
> > portlet architecture?
> >
>
> If you look at google under "portlet api", you will find javadocs of
> their API.
Epicentric has a similar API. I talked to their CEO/CTO a while back. They
were interested in collaborating or at least making our APIs portable but didn't
want to use Jetspeed itself because they believe that relying on Turbine was a
drawback... they just didn't understand the situation IMO.
> >
> > * Anybody has checked whether anything in the
> > Oracle portlet concept could be generic enough
> > to become part of Jetspeed?
> >
>
> What I saw doing what I said before was too tied to the database server
> to be usable in a generic API. (I would have expected that from a closed
> source company. I don't really understand Oracle's position with regards
> to OSS.)
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They are scared because they don't understand it yet. Not many people get Zen
philosophy when they are first exposed to it either :). I think they believe
they will give away the house if they do OSS. ... of course if they play their
cards right they will make a LOT more money :)
Kevin
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