Speed of Open Source
How much longer can proprietary software survive in the face of defacto standards that are based on open source?
I was playing with Jetspeed from Apache Jakarta last night. It’s a portal framework that aggregates content from RSS feeds and lets you write portlets. It lets the user pick which portlets to display and where on the screen, similar to staple portal sites like Yahoo and Netscape.
Another project that I find interesting is the Open For Business project, that addresses framework issues for security, catalog, orders, accounting, workflow, and marketing. They build heavily on the shoulders of other open source projects. With Jetspeed and Open For Business together, why would you deploy an expensive product like BEA Portal? BEA already abandoned their webflows in favor of Struts. Will the next move be to Portal Structure Markup Language (PSML) and Jetspeed?