Comments on: Open-source integration: No vendors required

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[Magallanes]

I known what is better than integration :one exclusively system.

[Matt Asay]

@Magallanes: Perhaps, but few (except maybe Microsoft) can achieve that, as few have the sort of resources necessary for buying or writing *everything.* For everyone else, there's integration....

[bluescott]

yes, it's cool that 2 vendors that make their code base available can do integration without having to forge a legal agreement. However, I would think that an agreement would still need to be forged to manage revenue sharing, go to market strategies, support and other such business issues as you briefly mention. I'm guessing the hair pulling with Siebel when you were with Novell had less to do with how the code would be integrated and more to do with the business terms around the deal. I'm not sure how that piece goes away.

[russ danner]

Well at least in the case of Hadoop the spoils go to Alfresco because of the Apache License. And for Hadoops part.. I think they got what they wanted as well. Adoption.

Your licenses set the semantics for the game and it's clear in cases just like this one that yes... those choices really do matter. What is your goal.... In the case of the apache / alfresco partnership whereby alfresco takes from ASF (and where it matters and when it can, gives back) and ASF gets adoption everyone wins.

No.. if Hadoop wanted to embed Alfresco? Well then they need to discuss the matter with Alfresco or comply fully to the GPL.

I love the open source system dynamics - it's well balanced for the most part (with the introduction of AGPL.)