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yrodiere
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Mar 20, 2025
| You can find more information in https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/evolving-our-middleware-strategy[the official announcement]. | ||
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| These employees work for the most part on open-source Java technologies, | ||
| for example Quarkus, whose team https://quarkus.io/blog/quarkus-redhat-strategy/[also commented on the move]. |
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There seems to be other blogs out there already. Maybe I should link to WildFly's as well? https://www.wildfly.org/news/2025/03/05/WildFly_and_Red_Hat_strategy/
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The tone here is you, personally. I'd have expected a more team-oriented announcement? |
Me too, and that was my original proposal... but, opinions happen. See the email thread :/ FWIW my original proposal is still there, in the first commit. |
Sanne
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Mar 20, 2025
| :awestruct-tags: ["Red Hat", "IBM", "Community", "Commonhaus"] | ||
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| A few weeks ago, Red Hat announced its Middleware division would move to IBM. |
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| A few weeks ago, Red Hat announced its Middleware division would move to IBM. | |
| A few weeks ago, Red Hat announced that its Middleware division would move to IBM; this includes several key members of the Hibernate team. |
Sanne
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| A few weeks ago, Red Hat announced its Middleware division would move to IBM. | ||
| As a change of this nature is likely to raise a few questions, I felt it would be best to provide some information -- even though the team as a whole is not yet ready to provide an official statement. |
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| As a change of this nature is likely to raise a few questions, I felt it would be best to provide some information -- even though the team as a whole is not yet ready to provide an official statement. |
Sanne
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| == What's the impact on Hibernate users and contributors? | ||
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| The displayed intent of the move is to keep funding open-source development, |
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| The displayed intent of the move is to keep funding open-source development, | |
| The intent of the move is to keep funding open-source development, |
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| The displayed intent of the move is to keep funding open-source development, | ||
| which implies no negative impact on the open-source software community. | ||
| Early internal communication I received was consistent with this, |
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| Early internal communication I received was consistent with this, |
Sanne
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| The displayed intent of the move is to keep funding open-source development, | ||
| which implies no negative impact on the open-source software community. | ||
| Early internal communication I received was consistent with this, | ||
| highlighting open-source development as a strategic investment. |
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| highlighting open-source development as a strategic investment. |
Sanne
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| and the https://in.relation.to/2024/04/09/hibernate-to-commonhaus/[move of Hibernate to the Commonhaus Foundation] is well under way, | ||
| with the final steps being worked on as we speak. | ||
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| Also, yes, if you can believe it, these initiatives are a happy coincidence: |
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| These initiatives are a happy coincidence: |
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| Also, yes, if you can believe it, these initiatives are a happy coincidence: | ||
| the Hibernate team started them more than a year ago, | ||
| while we were made aware of the move to IBM almost at the same time as everybody else, a few weeks ago. |
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| while we were made aware of the move to IBM almost at the same time as everybody else, a few weeks ago. | |
| while we were made aware of the move to IBM at the same time as everybody else: only a few weeks ago. |
Sanne
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| == Some quotes from Hibernate team members | ||
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| I took the liberty to collect quotes from fellow Hibernate team members. | ||
| Note this reflects each person's opinion, and is not meant as an official statement from the whole team. |
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| Note this reflects each person's opinion, and is not meant as an official statement from the whole team. | |
| These reflects each person's opinion, and is not meant as a statement from the team as a whole. |
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To be sent on Monday, March 24th. I expect some discussion to be necessary, so today/tomorrow seems too soon.
Staging: https://staging.in.relation.to/2025/03/24/red-hat-ibm/
It's a first draft, so feel free to comment about what I should add or remove. I tried to stay simple, and to stick to facts.
This includes quotes from @sebersole and @marko-bekhta .
@beikov @DavideD @dreab8 @jrenaat @koentsje @mbladel @Sanne: I didn't receive a quote from you, but feel free to provide one (here or through DM) and I'll add it. Though of course, it's up to you (I'm personally not providing one).