kiss the sun and walk on air » past http://osi.fotap.org my thoughts and my life. yes, another blog on the internet. who would have thought. Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:32:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 open source for the win http://osi.fotap.org/2008/08/04/open-source-for-the-win/ http://osi.fotap.org/2008/08/04/open-source-for-the-win/#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:10:48 +0000 osi http://osi.fotap.org/?p=79 my former employer, pace systems group just got acquired for $21m. alas, i never got any stock, so no making out like a bandit for me.

however, what i found interesting was:

Why ePACE? Olin indicates that a key attraction was the fact that the solution is based on an open source platform running on the Linux operating system.

as the lead architect of the system, reading this makes me proud. its using some very battle-tested technologies. apache avalon as the component backbone (i bet its still running in the phoenix container!), cocoon for the webapp, and all served up with jetty. we moved to an appliance model early on, shipping a debian-based machine that was turn-key

congratulations to the whole pace team, you guys did great!

edit: another good article (especially the comments) on the deal .. highlights what some of the customers liked about pace, and the industry in general.

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