Sydney Morning Herald: Hibernate Deal Opens Way to Make Open Source Pay

"The Australian-led Hibernate free software project has attracted financial backing from a US commercial vendor, in exchange for premium customer service. Gavin King and his colleague Christian Bauer have joined the payroll of JBoss Inc, a software infrastructure company based in Georgia, US. King says selling his expert knowledge of the project he founded 2 1/2 years ago, will help fund the project's ongoing development.

"Hibernate automatically translates information contained in systems written in Java, into relational databases--while JBoss provides an 'application server' platform to run them on..."

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