Red Hat, JBoss execs call for Java openness
Why the Java source code hasn't been made available to the masses is beyond Tim Yeaton, Red Hat's senior vice president of enterprise applications.
The community model is proven. And to see the results, a user, pundit, analyst or otherwise would have to look no further than JBoss, a popular open source middleware company that was recently acquired by Red Hat for a cool $400 million.
At the Red Hat Summit, the annual convergence of users and partners of the Durham, N.C.-based commercial Linux vendor held here last week, Yeaton was joined by Shaun Connolly, vice president of product management at JBoss. The two open source executives took the opportunity to grouse about the current state of Java, touch upon plans for virtualization and rally on the need for openness by companies like Microsoft.
How would an open Java be of any value to this partnership?
Tim Yeaton: First off I think it's been a disappointment that there hasn't been more progress in opening Java. You look at choices that have to be made in terms of [Java Virtual Machines], and we are all making a series of awkward choices because the processes of the technology have not been opened.
I think there has been some amount of opposition because there was a certain amount of pre-[JavaOne annual developers conference] buzz that the [current attitude] might change. I think certainly my observation is that we didn't get much further with an open Java. Unfortunately because we are contrived into doing odd things to meet what our customers need.
So there is more to this than just the media and a good headline.
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