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The BEA/Fuego merger is still keeping me very busy. BEA has great relationships with their customers and, as a result, a lot of BEA's customers are interested in hearing about AquaLogic BPM. That, combined with the usual end of the BEA quarter rush, as been making me a deliquent blogger. But all of the activity has certainly got be thinking about things to blog, so as soon as I get caught up I'll have several things I want to post.

In the meantime, here are some short and sweet comments that I'll roll up into a single post.

• Phil Gilbert has another post on the ongoing BPEL discussion. Looks like his blog is having some technical problems, but the gist is that BPEL is just an implementation language and therefore not really that important anyway. I couldn't agree more.
• Also on the BPEL front, I wanted to mention Ronan Bradley's post about ESBs. He notes that only 3 of the 8 products reviewed by Network Computing included BPEL support. It seems that even in the system to system world of ESB products, BPEL is struggling for acceptance.
• The Red Hat and JBoss merger deserves its own post, but I'll make a few short comments here. Those who know me from my J2EE days know that I've never been a fan of JBoss. I like open source, but I've found the leadership of JBoss to be very unprofessional. Both to customers and to their developers. (And this behavior is not limited to just its infamous CEO, Marc Fleury.) So maybe I'm not the most objective on the merger, but I predict that there will be culture issues between Red Hat and JBoss. Red Hat is a very practical company, whereas JBoss is very idealistic. I wonder how well Red Hat will accept someone who thinks that Red Hat is an "open source" pretender and wraps Linux in s**t. I also wonder how this will affect the non-core JBoss projects. I can see Red Hat wanting the JBoss server, but a lot of other JBoss projects are pretty experimental.

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