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I largely agree that JPA is a maddening mess[0]. However, this sentence caught my eye: > I love open source, really, but big companies sponsoring open-source p
by jacques_chester 6y ago
I largely agree that JPA is a maddening mess[0]. However, this sentence caught my eye:
> I love open source, really, but big companies sponsoring open-source projects get most of their income from support or third party tools.
I work for VMware and consequently take some interest as to how my salary comes into being.
If you think VMware makes "most of its income" from supporting Spring, then I think I'd encourage you to spend some time at the investor relations site[0] reading any of the annual or quarterly reports. I'd advise the same for Oracle and Red Hat/IBM.
[0] The advice to use emails or SSNs as primary keys, though: yikes.
[1] https://ir.vmware.com/ https://ir.vmware.com/
- lmm 6y ago> If you think VMware makes "most of its income" from supporting Spring, then I think I'd encourage you to spend some time at the investor relations site[0] reading any of the annual or quarterly reports. VMware is a huge company with its fingers in many pies, but I suspect if you rewrite the sentence as "most of their income attributable to that open-source project" then it would be true of such companies. Presumably VMware sees a return on investment for its sponsorship of Spring (otherwise why do it?); if that's not coming via support or non-free tools that build on Spring then where is it coming from?
- jacques_chester 6y agoI can't speak for folks moving in VMware's most exalted circles, but from my personal perspective the aura and reflected glamour are valuable in itself. Spring's reach and influence in enterprise programming is enormous. Put another way: I don't think Spring makes money. It makes making money easier.