[jdev] ejabberd vs. Wildfire

[Sander Devrieze]

Op zondag 22 januari 2006 15:22, schreef Tomasz Sterna:
> 2006/1/21, Yves Goergen <nospam.list at unclassified.de>:
> > I'm currently running ejabberd
> > 0.7.5 but I'm going to upgrade to either 1.0 or Wildfire.
>
> I'm looking at it from the very pragmatic point of view:
> - How many developers that groks Java are "out there"?
> - And how many developers groking erlang are there?
>
> How does that impact the future of both servers?

This is not the only question you need to ask yourself. If you ask yourself 
the importance of both projects in the bigger communities, you get IMO a very 
good image for ejabberd:
* ejabberd is the third, or even second most visible open-source projects in 
the Erlang comminity.
* On the other hand, Wildfire is one of the, let's say (at least it will be 
not the second or third most important project), top 100 open-source projects 
written in Java.

Besides that, ejabberd also has much more unsponsored contributions than 
Wildfire has. So if Jive drops their contributions, the risk for problems in 
the project is probably higher than if Process-One drops their contributions 
to ejabberd. (Dropping contributions can be things like focussing on other 
markets and products, bankruptcy,..)

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