Engineers from Microsoft and JBoss, which sells an application server and other middleware under an open-source license, will work together in Redmond, Wash., to improve the performance of JBoss products running on Windows. Although JBoss sells its products under a relative of the open-source GNU Public License, or GPL, that Microsoft has criticized as a threat to intellectual-property ownership, and its technology is based on the Java standard that competes with Windows as a development platform, Microsoft said the deal is meant to help a small software company that influences sales of Windows server software.
Some useful links about this "deal" (?):
- "Microsoft ties knot with JBoss: who's the enemy?", Sep 27th'05
- "Tacking Stock with JBoss" - Interview with JBoss' CEO, Sep 29th'05
- "Microsoft And JBoss Strike Development Deal", Sep 27th'05
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