JBoss and Microsoft to Cooperate
Filed in archive Application Development by jason on September 30, 2005

space but will work to ensure that future releases of products can co-exist peacefully together. The benefit to JBoss is obvious to everyone. Who would not want to be approached by Microsoft with an opportunity to work together? JBoss says that a little over 50% of their entire install base is running on top of Windows based systems.
What Microsoft gets out of this arrangement is a little harder to understand. I remember using J++ back in the day, yes I wrote Java applications that could only run on a Wintel systems (painful as that might be to admit), and I remember the big controversy around Microsoft cutting off support for Java after the court battle with Sun MicroSystems. Now for there to be such a big turn around and for Microsoft to acknowledge the need to support an application server that is based on Java technology is a pretty big deal.
For those people not keeping score here could be a part of Micorsoft's motivation:
- During JavaOne 2005 it was announced that worldwide 14 million people are using Java as a programming language
- Within the past year Java surpassed COBOL as the most used programming language
- JBoss is an open source company and why not choose them for a partner ;-)
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