The Server Side is reporting that Geronimo, the little application server that largely couldn't, is struggling to catch up with JBoss, but is falling short largely because of its biggest corporate sponsor: IBM. IBM provides productized versions of Geronimo but they don't bring home the WebSphere revenue bacon (neither do support subscriptions around it), leaving Geronimo's future very much in doubt.
Apparently, getting one's sponsorship from a company with a competing, proprietary product to protect is not a winning strategy:
Geronimo is much like Eclipse: not formally controlled by IBM, but since most of Geronimo's core committers are employed by Big Blue, control more or less belongs in IBM's hands.
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An analyst friend emailed me the other day to get my opinion on the analyst community's negative Red Hat pile-on. Bank of America, Global Equities Research, and others have recently been hand-wringing over Red Hat's future, suggesting that its JBoss business is stalling, that it's "losing momentum" in emerging markets like China, and (here's the one I find immensely laughable) that hardware vendors like HP are having to step in to fill Red Hat's failing shoes on support.
Trip Chowdhry of Global Equities Research tried to outdo this list, however, arguing that not only does Red Hat stink, but the entire LAMP ecosystem is rubbish, too. He declares that .Net is winning developers' hearts and minds while the LAMP stack is on its way to relegation to the dustbin of history. His bias exposed (just as mine is here: I'm an open-source believer and see rampant uptake of LAMP and open source throughout the enterprise), he has his 15 seconds of fame. Time to move on.
One thing, however, bears further investigation. JBoss. The consensus view from analysts seems to be that JBoss is Red Hat's Achilles Heel. Let's take a look at some data to get a better picture.
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