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James Gosling inadvertently mentions one of the reasons Sun loses money while IBM rakes it in:
Then there was all the stuff about open sourcing of our app server, a project internally named GlassFish. It's all out there at glassfish.dev.java.net. We've been pricing the binaries at $0 for quite a while, now all of the source is out there for anyone to grab and play with. It'll be the place where we do our work on the evolution of Java EE.
IBM being there was wonderful: the contract negotiations had gone on for quite a while, and resolved to everyone's satisfaction. They've been great supporters for years and I'm very happy to have all the details clear once again.
Price for the IBM Application Server (last I checked, the most popular in the Java space) - big bucks. Price for the Sun entry in that space - $0.
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