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Novell ditches JBoss
July 17, 2006
Novell has ditched the JBoss application server in favour of Geronimo, following Red Hat's recent acquisition of JBoss.
According to a report in Information Week (which Novell is itself linking to, so we assume its accurate) the company is including support for Geronimo in SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, dropping JBoss.
The inclusion of Geronimo is not much of a surprise - Novell announced plans to do so in December 2005 as part of a strategic alliance with IBM. However, Novell maintained its commitment to JBoss in April following JBoss's acquisition by Red Hat.
As noted at the time, Novell had been closer to JBoss than Red Hat, having begun to offer support for the JBoss Application Server in July 2004 before ditching its own exteNd Application Server in favour of JBoss AS in August 2004.
Novell had included JBoss 3.2.3 in both SLES 9 and Novell Linux Desktop 9. The InfoWeek report indicates that it will no longer be included in SLES or SLED 10, but Novell's own package descriptions are currently pointing at SLES and NLD 9.
UPDATE - Novell has confirmed that it has ditched JBoss, with Justin Steinman, director of marketing for Linux and open platform solutions, blaming a change of licensing terms. "There are going to be two major open source Java platforms in the future: one will be JBoss, and the other will be Geronimo. JBoss changed some of its license terms, which made it difficult to include JBoss in SUSE Linux Enterprise 10," he stated.
"However, SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 will continue to support JBoss, and Novell will continue to provide technical support for JBoss as per our existing contract with JBoss."
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