The majority of people who voted in this past week's java.net poll are pleased that Oracle's acquisition of Sun has not significantly changed GlassFish's mode of operation as an open source project or its future development focus. A total of 200 votes were cast, with these results:
What do you like most about the new GlassFish Roadmap
31% (62 votes) - GlassFish remains transparent and participatory
4% (7 votes) - The addition of an Oracle-supported distribution
31% (61 votes) - Clustering in GF v3.1
4% (8 votes) - Interoperation with Oracle Middleware
10% (20 votes) - I don't like anything about it
17% (33 votes) - I don't know
5% (9 votes) - Other
About 3/4 of the voters in the (non-scientific) survey indicated that there is something that they like most about the new GlassFish Roadmap. Within this group, about 42% were most pleased about the lack of change in how the project is being run going forward (GF remains transparent and participatory); another 42% were most pleased by the plan to add clustering in GF v3.1; about 10% were most pleased about either the addition of an Oracle-supported distribution or interoperation with Oracle Middleware; and 6% were most pleased by something in the roadmap that wasn't listed in the poll (other).
To me, this suggests quite broad approval within the community for the direction the GlassFish project is taking, post-Oracle acquisition. There's still definitely some confusion regarding licensing. For example, see the comments to Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine's GlassFish Roadmap slides posted.
ljnelson posted a comment to the poll titled "Licensing is clear as mud to me" in which he quotes portions of the new license and asks:
What does this mean? Can I bundle Glassfish open source edition--like I could previously--to host my commercial software? Or is that now prohibited? And if it is prohibited, how can this be the case if the source is governed by the GPL and the CDDL?
pelegri provided clarification in his response:
There will be two distributions: the oracle distribution and the OSS distribution. This is an arrangement similar to how it was under Sun. The details of the licenses used and the names of the releases vary a bit, but the general structure remains...
While overall the voters approve of GlassFish's direction, there was a some displeasure expressed: 10% of the voters said they don't like anything about the new GlassFish roadmap. Another 17% didn't know what they like most about the new roadmap.
cajo, who posted the third comment to the poll ("Missing option: Who cares?"), may be among the 10%:
There is vastly more to Java, and its infrastructure, than simply generating web pages. It is high time we started thinking about this.
New poll: Internet-connected portable devices
Our new java.net poll is about as basic as you can get: How many portable devices with Internet connectivity do you own? I'm asking this to lay down a baseline. Because this is the type of question that I think will be interesting to ask periodically, so we can observe the trends over time.
Though the poll is simple, I did spend some time trying to get the phrasing right. The device has to be "portable" -- i.e., you can carry it around with you with relative ease -- and it has to have Internet connectivity (i.e., an old cell phone that can only be used for phone calls doesn't count). Admittedly, there are still some gray areas. Just use your own judgment, and feel free to post comments that identify the gray areas you perceive, and the decision you made on whether those devices qualify as being portable and having Internet connectivity.
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