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OpenSSO becomes OpenAMOpenSSO becomes OpenAMPosted Mar 19, 2010 16:31 UTC (Fri) by PO8 (guest, #41661)In reply to: OpenSSO becomes OpenAM by djf_jeff Parent article: OpenSSO becomes OpenAM
Yes, Oracle seems to be losing a lot of the smaller Sun projects. The Drizzle team was recently acquired by Rackspace, for example. Oracle has closed Sun's Project Kenai open source hosting. Apparently, some projects exited Sun just before the merger as well, such as the JRuby team. It will be interesting to see whether these smaller projects become weaker or stronger as a result of exiting Sun. On the one hand, they will lose valuable resources and financial support. On the other, they will be independent of Sun's / Oracle's attempts to manage their licensing and "IP", and freer to chart their own course. The most excellent thing, though, is that it looks like most of the developers on these projects will continue to get paid by someone. The open source community has really matured over the last five years or so; at this point, there seem to be plenty of folks willing to stake salaries for promising projects.
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