Wednesday, 6 December 2006

Terracotta Enters the Open Source Arena with JVM

Terracotta is planning to open source its Java Virtual Machine (JVM) clustering software. Open source software companies like Spring, Geronimo, Tomcat and others support this move. "Terracotta’s move will have a positive impact on the Java open source community", said Jeff Genender, CTO and chief architect of Savoir Technologies and active committer and Project Management Committee (PMC) member for Apache Geronimo.

The collaboration between Terracotta and the Open Source Software (OSS) community began last spring when the company announced partnerships with key OSS companies such as Covalent Technologies and Interface21, as well as integration with several open source projects such as Tomcat, Spring, Geronimo, Eclipse and Struts. As traction continues to build within the OSS community, Terracotta began to execute the plan to open source its clustering software products. Terracotta executives believe this will accelerate its momentum in OSS through easier integration and development for widely adopted projects.

On the other hand, at last year’s JavaONE Conference, Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems and Rich Green, the Executive Vice President, committed to releasing Java SE (Standard Edition) under an Open Source license. Since then, Sun has been slowly edging towards what has been a much-awaited eventuality. Taking this initiative further, Sun had announced the open sourcing of more components of the Java platform. The components being released were the Java C Compiler, HotSpot VM (Virtual Machine), and the Java Helpdesk.