Glassfish continues

Even as I advocate, in relative terms that the Oracle stewardship of Glassfish will be sub-par, and under-resourced, the team treks on, and does amazing things like come out with Cluster in the Admin Console in 3.1 M3, i saw the demo on the video capture of someone starting and destroying a cluster, in about six minutes, and it all looked so easy, and powerful, and it got me thinking that this must be what its like to run Google’s datacenter…. Google has perfected, to this point, the automatic up-keep of a vast array of Java-based applications, and Glassfish is the only application server that mimics its efficiency and effectiveness, and it is standard, something you can sell in to large enterprises, and Oracle won’t do it, which is why it is so fundamental to me that Google takes ownership and stewardship of Glassfish to combine the two technological leaders in their respective categories, and take-down Microsoft on the server….it must be done…. I admire the team at Glassfish almost like how I admired my team of product managers and engineers when i was at Sun on Sun ONE Application Server 7, they are so capable of working the technical angle, while making it comprehensible to the non-techy, because if i were to have been given the opportunity to manage that team, and put them in the field, and have them sell, based on their Java savvy of how to make a free app server work right, then i would have saved Sun….instead, i was forced out, because the management of Schwartz’s software division wanted a merger with BEA, as they mistakenly, like Oracle, thought that WebLogic was better than Sun’s own product….i showed them it was not, by utilizing the product managers on the S1AS7 product-line to beat WebLogic in the trenches, and this is something i would do for Google…. If Google really wants to get serious about making the lives of software developers more palatable, they will invest in Glassfish, and make a strong case for the enterprise, i have said it is worth giving up the family secrets of Linux in the Google datacenter, but maybe its also worth a cool billion dollars, to get Glassfish out from under Oracle, or perhaps Google wants control of the JCP, in that case, they would have to do a deal, they couldn’t buy that, but Glassfish, and an enterprise strategy beyond Apps, would be there for the taking for a cool $1B, thats all, just 1/30th of what is in the bank, and counting…. Google is out-of-control, they are growing so fast that it makes the head spin, their advertising platform is unassailable, and their investment in Android is paying off enormous dividends, they are stretched far-and-long, but they can do it, they could also build an enterprise server strategy on Glassfish, and the Glassfish team would happily transfer over to Google, and become Google employees, and I’ll run product marketing, and rely on the current team to do what they are doing, as beyond John Clingan, they have no marketing, except to developers…. Put Google behind Glassfish, give it a marketing team, and watch it explode in countless different directions, from the cloud, to automated datacenters, to IDE’s that actually work, to Java being relevant again…..Google would end the battle over Harmony, as it would become standard Java SE, and all developers who believed in Java on the server, would move to Google, and compete from the cozy confines of an unbeatable, Microsoft-buster, un-limited budgets company, and make their living off the scraps, that would be plentiful….consultants, System Integrators, ISVs, all would move to Google Glassfish, it would only be a matter of time before the sights were set on .Net…. Microsoft is reeling, they are under enormous pressure on Bing, and from Android and Chrome OS, they only have the server left to run to, let it be that Google Glassfish cut-off that oxygen supply, so the ultimate death is inevitable, that Microsoft’s counter-productive software strategy is killed once-and-for-all, and they have to start over as an innovator on the backs of the loot they have piled up from dis-gruntled users for decades….only Google can deliver this, and only Glassfish gives Google the tool to do it, the weapon of choice in the killing off of the last great monopolist….let it be done, so it was written, and so it shall be done….