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Dump Your Waste Onto an Open Source and Buy What You Really Need

Workshop was a dead end product, and BEA got rid of it in a smart way earning credits for being a software donor
By Yakov Fain
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October 21, 2005 01:45 PM EDT
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Recently, in one of my Gas Station columns I've been writing about the "donation" of WebLogic Workshop 8.1 IDE to the open source community. Workshop was a dead end product, and BEA got rid of it in a smart way earning credits for being a software donor.

And now BEA announced their acquisition of M7, and IDE maker that created NitroX, a tool for Eclipse for development with JSP, JSF and Struts. If you do not know, the dumped Workshop 8.1 was also meant to simplify JSP development using a NetUI libraries built on top of Struts. Now BEA executives say that this purchase "fills the gap" without mentioning that they have created this gap themselves by getting rid of Workshop last year. BTW, anyone knows the fate of donated Workshop? Did anything good come out of it?

It looks like dump-to-open-source-buy-real-staff model becomes popular these days. Last week IBM has donated a part of their RUP tools to Eclipse. I do not know what was wrong with these tools, but something should have been not right. Let's just wait for new RUP-related acquisition announcements from IBM.

posted Friday, 21 October 2005 1:45 PM

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Yakov Fain is a Managing Director of Farata Systems, consulting, training and product company. He has authored several Java books, dozens of technical articles. SYS-CON Books released his latest co-authored book , Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters in Spring 2007. Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Yakov with the title Java Champion. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group. He is an Adobe Certified Flex Instructor. Yakov co-athored the O'Reilly book "Enterprise Application Development with Flex". He twits at twitter.com/yfain.

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Denis Robert 10/21/05 04:29:08 PM EDT

There's nothing wrong with the RUP, and IBM has already made the biggest RUP-related acquisition: Rational Software itself. So you would really do well to pay closer attention to the industry; as a journalist, it's kinda your job to do so.

IBM has donated a subset of the RUP to the Eclipse Foundation, in order to better integrate it to Eclipse's core. They did the same with Applcation Developer's web and basic ejb tools. That doesn't mean that they are likely to drop AD anytime soon, only that they want other tools to play ball with their products.

So, altough BEA's contributions have been somewhat suspect, IBM's are in a different class.

Do your homework, dude.
JDJ News Desk 10/21/05 01:53:15 PM EDT

Yakov Fain's Java Blog: Dump Your Waste Onto an Open Source. Recently, in one of my Gas Station columns I've been writing about the 'donation' of WebLogic Workshop 8.1 IDE to the open source community. Workshop was a dead end product, and BEA got rid of it in a smart way earning credits for being a software donor.