Project Goose Egg?

At the beginning of the month, IBM released Project Zero, 'an incubator project started within IBM that is focused on the agile development of the next generation of dynamic Web applications' that includes a scripting runtime for Groovy and PHP and APIs for developing REST-style services, and since then it has taken quite a beating.

At issue is IBM's licensing policy for Zero, which is explicitly not open source. But Zero is 'being developed openly using a Community-Driven Commercial Development process,' IBM says, so some clarification seems needed.

You could check out the faq or the podcast, in which we learn that it's all good and cool and great.

Or you could see what the Groovy people think, or get the lowdown from the server side, or a PHP perspective and see if it flips your bucket, but I'd guess you're more interested in what Java programmers think about it.

A consensus seems to be forming, and it isn't positive.

Posted by Mike Swaine at 06:21 PM  Permalink