Its been five years to the month, since I started blogging here, and its been an eventful experience to learn how to write better on-line, even though i still utilize the comma and elipse as much as anyone, i think it has been good for me, and I have received positive feedback from developers and others in the industry….this is my original blog, but as you can see from my profile, I keep up others based on interest areas… In that time period, we witnessed the long demise and eventual death of my former employer, Sun Microsystems, which I believe was a management failure, as much as an economic reality, they just failed to build on Reference Architectures, that would have actually sold a system and not just hardware, and free software….they had the best, little app server program on the market in Glassfish, and now, we are witnessing the slow slide to irrelevance of that product-line, as Oracle goes after revenue on the high-ticket-item-price of WebLogic… In recent posts, i have called on the second industry fork of a major enterprise OSS software product, following on Oracle’s copy of Red Hat Enterprise Linux…I think Google should do it, and get in to enterprise software with an app server, but i am not currently in contact with anyone at Google, so i continue to write and hope that someone thinks the same….Oracle irks me, not least because some of the same people who ran me out of Sun are now in charge of their software strategy, and what better payback could i think of than to fork their better app server, beat them at their own game, and sell-out to Google? I know vendettas are typically a huge energy waste, so i try and keep it professional, but something about Glassfish intrigues, not least because that was my baby, i created that product-line w/ Sun app server v. 7, and was the first in Sun to advocate for the app server program going open source, so i think it might come full circle…. Other than that, i am concerned about the recent back-and-forth, and confusing messages around the JBI product-line, called Fuji, i think, or at least anything to do with the OSS ESB, as Oracle clearly does not have the capacity to push this forward, in the direction of portable JBI components on the open marketplace….JSR 208 is a great achievement, regardless of what MuleSource will tell you, and subsequent JBI work was heroic in developer terms….it actually could simplify integration of back-end systems for the first time in the history of IT, and that would be worth billions, so if there is a second fork, i would take the Sun ESB and make it part of the Glassfish fork, and build a company, but i think one of the former Sun guys is on that with Hudson, though i might be a little mixed up on his plans…. As you can see, I typically have a negative axe to grind, when it comes to enterprise software, as i just dont see a lot of good execution, which is why it is ripe for a take-over by Google, i just might try it, if i get the developer supoprt first, but the resources and the competitive afront to Microsoft that Google represents would be nice to have in building a new company, based on a controversial fork of Glassfish….I will try and stay positive and let the great team of current Glassfish managers work out the roadmap, but i just dont see a future for distributed clusters of Glassfish when it makes no economic sense for Oracle to go down that path, and confuse WebLogic customers, for limited revenue…. so, after 5 years, i am still in the same position, holding on to a dream of compatible, portable EJB components, that simply plug-in, on-the-fly, in the cloud, and are sellable in an open marketplace for allowing developers to take back control of IT, and i only see Glassfish and the ongoing viability of JBoss as making that possible….we need both to be viable for the EJB component promise to take hold, and so i am willing to do my part, if given the opportunity to shepherd Glassfish forward, as JBoss is well covered…. what are you going to do?…. Software Development