The Goldfish Chronicles

This is a thought that I’ve seen people have a lot at Apache. The second keynote at OSBC was on the technology behind CBS. It was the de facto set of technology choices:

Linux, Java, Apache HTTP, Tomcat, Hibernate, Spring, Struts, Lucene, Xerces, Xalan.

60% of that is from the ASF. 99% of the conversation here at OSBC will be about the other 30% (with probably not a lot this year about Java I think). It’s both our charm and our limitation. Our pro and our con. Can ASF things ever be talked about that much without losing that which made them so popular?

Spring of course is the great example of what might be. AL 2.0, yet commercial. However they own all the IP, could SpringSource be SpringSource if Apache held all their original IP? Could SpringSource survive if they donated their code to Apache? [Not that I’m suggesting that - it’s my example for whether Apache could create a JBoss, a SpringSource etc; or whether all the smaller companies trying to get there will struggle. ]

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