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[UAU, FreeRoller is UP again!]

Oh, yeah... Things start to heat up. So Geronimo is about to enter the J2EE scene, and from what we see, they have quite a bunch of interesting JBoss and ex-JBoss people aboard:

* Dain Sundstrom
* David Jencks
* Greg Wilkins
* Jason Dillon
* Jeremy Boynes
* Jules Golsnell
* Remigio Chirino
* Simone Bordet

When I first heard of the project I thought "hey, this may just be a fad, and it's probably nothing serious". But seing these and the other project developers, I actually believe (and hope) that this is an effort made to last, and take a bite in JBoss' market share. And this is very very good news for both sides.

It's good for Geronimo (since they will have a strong market push to at the very least level up with JBoss) and it's of course very good for JBoss, since they will have serious competition to measure against, and will have to loose the current "I'm the king of the world" attitude.

Funny thing is that I really think it's quite possible (and benefic) to create a clean-room implementation of the J2EE spec within a reasonable timeframe (since the JBoss code is nowadays somewhat criplet with legacy heritage).

Welcome Geronimo! May yours be the cry of courage, not dispair.

Hugo

PS: A sidenote: is JBoss a TABU issue now? My previous post was probably the most read one in the last days, and is the sole one that did not have any comments. I guess this is nowadays, a bit like how a friend of mine was saying: if you speak good of JBoss you're a moron follower of the gang, if you speak bad about it, you're a FUD disperser. How far did we walk from those early days...