Anticlue

JBoss & Drools

JBoss announced that the members of the Drools project had voted to join forces with the commercial open source powerhouse. Drools will be merged into the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS), and Marc Proctor will join JBoss as a software architect. Describing his support for joining JBoss, Proctor said: “Simply put, there is no other organization in open source as willing to take risks as JBoss when it comes to driving middleware innovation…”

This is just the latest in a string of significant announcements from JBoss, including an alliance with Microsoft, a beefed up JBoss Portal, a new framework called Seams, and more. It’s a lot of activity in a short period of time. One has to wonder what’s next?

How does JBoss fit into the big picture? Do you use JBoss software in business and/or personal projects? Is the company assembling a core suite broad enough that it could actually “dominate” open source Java on the server side, whatever that might mean?

http://www.jboss.com/pdf/press/Drools_100305.pdf