eWeek: J2EE Is Becoming a Completely Open-Source Play

[ Thanks to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]

"Once upon a time, and it wasn't that long ago, the Java development business revolved around selling Java 2 Enterprise Edition servers.

"That was then. This is now.

"Sun Microsystems announced Monday that it is moving its Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 9 from the JRL (Java Research License), aka the GlassFish project, to its more open-source friendly CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License)..."

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