Jini lives, but JRuby prospers

The Ruby language and Sun's Jini are very different technologies for very different purposes. Last week, both were in the news, as proponents of one moved closer to Sun's bosom and proponents of the other -- um, got drunk? (We have the pictures!)

Last week Sun hired two key JRuby developers, Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo. I should say the two key JRuby developers. There seems to have been some controversy about what they are going to be doing at Sun. Maybe it's settled now. Apparently there was no controversy at the 10th Annual Jini Community Meeting in Brussels last week over the crucial question: Why Brussels? Clearly it was all about the beer. One topic under discussion in Brussels struck an odd sort of parallel with Sun's adopting of JRuby: Jini's appeal to be adopted by the Apache Foundation. Not the same sort of adoption, but vaguely suggestive nevertheless of the relative positions of the adopted versus the natural child of Sun.

Posted by Mike Swaine at 05:04 PM  Permalink