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After this morning's surprise
announcement that JBoss
Group was essentially forking, there has been a lot of speculation
about what this means for JBoss Group specifically and JBoss in
general. The new company was started by 8 now-former JBoss Group
consultants and was announced with much fanfare this morning. Ben
Sabrin of JBoss Group just posted a "rebuttal" of sorts to the
jboss-user mailing list. He took a few jabs at the departing
consultants and made one statement that's a bit hard to swallow. The
jabs:
"...the most
important developers are on board with JBoss Group."
"WE have the financial
resources to patch the departures of three consultants in our US consulting
operation."
and the dinger is
"It is business as usual and JBoss Group is currently growing."
The statement that all the "important" developers are on board is an
attempt to downplay the reputations of those who have left by implying
that they were second string, while the second is attempting to indicate
that the new company is going to be strapped for cash, probably to
scare off potential customers. I have no
personal info on either statement or situation, nor do I know if the
developers in question are useful or not. From what I can tell, though, in
reading the various articles about the split, the consultants who left
all seem like integral parts of the team... I can't blame
JBoss Group for being ticked off, but these statements just strike me
as a little smarmy.
The dinger is a dinger because how can you be growing if half of your
consultants just left?
I think it will be interesting to see how all this plays out over the
next several months. Will this lessen or increase the business use of
JBoss? I actually think the potential is there to increase it because
you have more options for support, but that's just me.
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