Tuesday, August 03, 2004

NOVELL: Novell and JBoss Expand Partnership to Accelerate the Adoption of Open Source in the Enterprise

NOVELL: Novell and JBoss Expand Partnership to Accelerate the Adoption of Open Source in the Enterprise "Novell and JBoss, Inc. today announced a new licensing and joint support agreement whereby Novell will bundle and support the open source JBoss® Application Server with SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server and Novell® exteNdTM. The widely deployed JBoss application server is the first open source application server to achieve J2EE* 1.4 compliance, a significant milestone for JBoss and the open source and J2EE communities. Together, Novell and JBoss will deliver the powerful combination of open source, Linux* and J2EE to the enterprise."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Proving conclusively that Sun's Jonathan Schwartz is right - IBM is in a pickle!

pbokelly said...

There are plenty of pickles to go around -- especially for ISVs in market segments that are being rapidly commoditized (e.g., BEA) and for hardware vendors that face shrinking margins due to server commoditization (e.g., Sun). IBM is also certainly impacted by commoditization, but, unlike companies such as Sun and BEA, IBM also has a healthy, diversified set of revenue- and profit-generating product lines.