It's always amused me to read bitter analysis of industry
politics. Sun, Microsoft, and the various JCP expert groups all are
common targets here in the Java community. I rarely have any inside
insight into those, so I just read most of it with a sort of bemused
detachment. Obviously JBoss is the target of a lot of speculation
too. It seems like there are a lot of "experts" out there who think
they know what is going on inside of the company. (
recent case in point)
It's easy to promote semi-educated guesses about what goes on
behind closed doors. I'm sure it's a lot of fun too. But really, do
you think the peanut gallery has any true insight into a company like
JBoss? Now that I have some visbility into JBoss, it's quite amusing
to watch people state with certainty what JBoss' plans for world
domination are and what we are worried about. It's one thing to
speculate a bit, but it's quite another to pretend like you have any
real insite into the motivations of other companies or the people
who work there.
I suppose I'm as guilty as anyone of overstepping the bounds. I
recall recently speculating that the reason that a JavaONE proposal I
made (along with Jack Herrington of Code Generation in Action) Java
code generation was probably rejected simply because it didn't really
fit with the annotations/EJB3 vision they were trying to push. With
an interesting topic and the authors of two popular code generation
books, I thought it would be an easy sell. Maybe we really were a
victim of the Sun conspiracy. Or, maybe our propsal just didn't stand
out as much as we had hoped. We will probably never know exactly why,
but it's pretty easy to stand on the outside and speculate. I'm sure
anyone involved in the submission process would just laugh. And
that's what I do when I hear wild speculation about JBoss.
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