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Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud. We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
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When BEA continued in September its support of "blended" applications development - i.e., letting BEA customers work with both open-source and commercial components - by buying Eclipse-based development tools maker M7, it acquired an IDE called NitroX. supports the JBoss, Resin, Tomcat, BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere applications servers as well as the Apache Foundation Struts, Java Server Faces, Java Server Pages and Hibernate Java Frameworks.

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Good metaphor. (Or is it more properly a simile?)

I hope that BEA will stick to the philosophy of M7 that was and hopefully still is : NO VENDOR LOCKIN. It's the core message of M7.


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WinchesterMystery wrote: Good metaphor. (Or is it more properly a simile?)
Marky Goldstein wrote: I hope that BEA will stick to the philosophy of M7 that was and hopefully still is : NO VENDOR LOCKIN. It's the core message of M7.
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