Re: Google buys Jotspot - what does this mean for Dojo?

Hi Shane,

On Tuesday 31 October 2006 11:03 am, Shane O'Sullivan wrote:
> Reading this article
> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6131024.html?part=rss&tag=feed&sub
>j=zdnnabout Google buying Jotspot, one sentence stands out:
>
> " Kraus said that the first order of business as part of Google is to
> move JotSpot's software to Google's software architecture."

Google's competitive advantage has been that they can scale like nobody 
else, and make money while doing it. The implications for the front-end 
are probably less drastic than mapping any application of any kind to 
what we know publicly about Google's infrastructure (BigTable, 
map-reduce, GFS, etc.).

> Does this mean that JotSpot's frontend is going to be based on GWT,
> and they'll stop contributing to Dojo?  Or just that they're changing
> the backend? What level of contribution do JotSpot make currently to
> Dojo?

I don't know that we'll get an answer about future commitment, but Jot 
has signed a CCLA with the Foundation and I know that there continue to 
be discussions with them about various patches that they want to see 
rolled back into the mainline.

Long story short: no idea.

Regards

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