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Paul pushed out the latest GF Admin GeoMap to reflect data from Feb 07 to May 08. A quick region-by-region comparison shows that the largest increase is in Latin America; Colombia grew more than 100%!
Month-to-month growth for several areas, based on hits:
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• US - 18%
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The web site for WorldxChange Communications NZ looks very good (they won the NZ Telecommunications Carrier of the Year 2007) and their Customer Bill View system is a JRuby Application running on GlassFish v2! The application came from an strategic emphasis in improving the customer experience and was developed very quickly, that influenced the choice of technologies. Check out Chris' Adoption Story and check the Questionnaire. The questionnaires for the Adoption Stories are always full of very interesting details; for example, WXC uses CentOS in production. Annecdotal data, but still, interesting. |
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One more Adoption Story: the FAA (website, Wikipedia) is now using GlassFish v2 for some of its projects. Some interesting tidbits: they develop and deploy on Solaris on Sun hardware and their exposure to GlassFish came from our NetBeans friends (thanks!). As usual, full details are available at the Questionnnaire. Note that FAA is in the process of purchasing GF v2 support - which reminds me I need to find the time to complete and push out a few more entries in GFB. |
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Reino International is an Australia-based company that is the largest paid parking equipment and service provider in Australasia and the USA. Reino has been running their reporting WebApp on GlassFish AppServer for the last 18 months. The App uses JSF, JAX-WS, JPA on Linux and Windows with MS SQL. Shown is RSV3 Digital Parking Meter, quite stylish, although not as much as Lovely Rita :-) Check out the Adoption Story and the Full Questionare. Thanks to Chris for the story, and all the work behind it! |
Computer Sweden has a couple of nice article on OpenSource, GlassFish and MySQL.
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The first CS Article covers the trend in IT software spending, specifically in the AppServer market, using GlassFish as an example of both Open Source momentum and Sun's success in that market. The article has an interview with the chief architect of Net Entertainment's (Overview, Customers) about their selection of GF v2 where he describes how they are "Saving 300,000 kronor a year with GF" and how they selected Sun rather than IBM, BEA, or JBoss. |
The second article covers the GlassFish/MySQL bundle released late March which is here dubbed as relevant for people interested in Ajax or Comet (or both).
Note - Some of our colleagues from Sweden helped with the translation and we also used Stars21. If you have a better english translation, please add a pointer to it in the comments to this entry.
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Open Source adoption in Europe is very strong, and we are seeing this through many customer engagements and also through through the GlassFish GeoMap Mashup, which is now 1 year old. Alexis shows Growth Graphically through snapshots; for DIY folks, go directly to the GF GeoMap and poke around. |
Note: The map is not including activity from GF instances downloaded through a NetBeans co-bundle. A big portion of our downloads are through NB's so we expect a very noticeable jump in activity when we fix the underlying problem, in NetBeans 6.1.
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The Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (Wikipedia, Organization About Page) is a German research organization that focuses on applied science (cf. the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft for basic research). Our latest Adoption Story describes how Metro and GlassFish were used in the Reference Implementation used in an e-Health initiative across multiple hospital organizations. Check the details at Chris' Electronic Case Record note. |
I had never heard of the Frauhofer Society but turns out they are fairly large (58 institutes with over 12K people) and well regarded with contributions to areas like MP3. Their funding includes state contributions as well as contract work; it is named after Joseph von Fraunhofer.
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This week's GlassFish podcast is Greg Luck's Podcast. This was part of a set of presentations at GF Day @ Sydney and worth a check. |
Some background/context: Wotif.COM was a very early adopter of GFv1 (story) and they stepped in some bugs long ago fixed. They remained a happy customer and they have recently started using Open MQ.
Also check Alexis' summary, Greg Luck's Adoption Overview and Dave Whitla's OpenMQ Presentation.
And here is the evolution of software, according to Dave's slides...
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We are going to start publishing the download numbers of GlassFish regularly; this follows the practice of many open source projects, including NetBeans, OpenOffice.ORG and JBoss. We will report downloads from Java.Net, Sun.Com and NetBeans.ORG monthly, grouped into two numbers, SDKs and Tools. The first installment shows numbers from July 2005 til last month, February 2008, presented as several graphs - for example, the Chart shown in this note shows the SDK at the bottom and then the Tools aggregated on top. |
So far, downloads are looking very good; for example, the Feb 08 d/l aggregates were 216,514 for SDKs and 378,686 for tools. I wrote a longer entry at my personal blog (Castellers) that goes into more details and provides context, comparison with JBoss and disclaimers.
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The Feb '08 data has been added into our GF Admin Console GeoMap:
• 303,673 - Pings in Feb '08
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We also have the download numbers and they are our best so far; even better than Last Month. I'm composing a longer note with more details that I'll push in a few days; stay tuned.
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Afga, ICW and Sun have launched the Open eHealth initiative to leverage Open Source in the Health industry. Open eHealth's goal is to create a community-driven software development platform to speed up the digitization of the healthcare industry, with emphasis on delivering interoperable, standards-based solutions. |
The service components will extend existing open source projects such as OpenESB, Glassfish, OpenSSO and Mural. More details in the Press Release and at the Open eHealth WebSite.
The big shift in the IT industry created by Open Source is accelerating. I have a biased perspective, but I strongly believe that Sun's strengths, size, and position will allow it to capitalize on and speed up the transition to this brave new world. I've a feeling we are not in Kansas anymore....
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Nazrul has a job opening in his group to help develop GlassFish. Check Nazrul's note and the Job Description. Entry-level (I presume that includes "recent grads"), any geography. Contact Nazrul if interested. |
BTW - I've just started tracking GlassFish job offers at Indeed.com (Live Trend, Snapshot) - jobs is probably one of the last things to start showing adoption, but it is nice to see it finally traking the Other Adoption Indicators. And yet another indicator is GlassFish-Questions@LinkedIn.
Ohloh.Net (info) is a very interesting social network site. It tracks contributions, ratings and use of open source components, in isolation and in stacks. As of now (Feb 7, 2008) below is the data for GlassFish and a few other app servers. Based on this, unscientific, data, quality is doing very well and adoption is increasing but still quite to go before passing Apache Tomcat... or getting even close to MySQL (1357 stacks, 4.1/5 rating)!
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• GlassFish (55 stacks, 4.8/5 rating)
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In a separate space, Hudson has almost surpased CruiseControl, which is very good. I was telling Kohsuke he should try to get Hudson into OpenSolaris and the Linux distros - it clearly is the best tool in this space and will be a huge winner:
• Hudson (41, 4.8/5)
• CruiseControl (44, 4.3/5)
• Continuum (23, 4.4/5)
If you are using GlassFish or Hudson, please considering stacking them!
GlassFish and
Hudson.
A follow up to Last Week's Post on Liferay 4.4 on GlassFish. Brian Chan - the Liferay architect - has some nice words about GlassFish (see blog) and the download numbers (SF download page) are looking pretty good.
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At the time of writing this note, download numbers are:
• geronimo - 307
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Note that Tomcat is the "preferred download" and it is displayed in the front page.
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We are almost ready with the set of rules for the GlassFish Awards Program. There will be some last minute adjustment on Monday but the $US 175K will be split into two: awards for the best Bug Submissions, and awards for Project Contributions. Check out the Themes and Project Ideas. The shape of the contest has been influenced by constraints on when the money will be available and when it has to be allocated; discussions threads at the Advocacy mailing list. |
Unfortunately Sun employees can't apply :-(
