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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