(Implications on JavaCC?? slash Lucene?) [Fwd: Re: [Juglist] Webgain closes doors...]

["Andrew C. Oliver" <ac...@apache.org>]

Re: (Implications on JavaCC?? slash Lucene?) [Fwd: Re: [Juglist] Webgain closes doors...]

[Brian Goetz <br...@quiotix.com>]

> > http://crn.channelsupersearch.com/news/crn/36225.asp

There's something weird about this article; it just has the feel of a
fabrication, although lots of strange-sounding things are true.  And,
the reference to it on F****Company was yanked yesterday (shows up in
the Google cache, but not on the FC site.)  

WebGain had promised to open-source JavaCC, likely under the Sun
Community License.  

> Speaking about the VisualCafe IDE:
> "The product is based on old code, and the developers out there do not like 
> it," said the former employee. "It has a lot of bugs, no one wants to buy 
> it." 

VC represents such a small part of WGs business, that this seems like
a very strange thing to focus on.  They bought some real products --
TopLink, StructureBuilder -- which would clearly be salable assets if
WG went under.  VC, not so much.


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