[news.eclipse.technology.ofmp] Re: Does Kaupthing's de facto Bankruptcy

[Werner Keil <werner.keil@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Aleksey,

Thanks a lot for the update.
That sounds good. I would be quite happy to meet you or Mr. Weigle
(following his invitation) on some occasion proper to all of us during
the ESE next month. I see you attend and present at least 2 of the 3
days, so chances are you also might be there on all 3 of them...?

I have to ask my "sponsors" from the Automotive industry in the area
whether they are happy for me to attend the tutorial on Tue?
Otherwise I am only sure for Wednesday.

Due to your own role not as a bank, but service provider your own
ability to continue committing to it wasn't in much doubt anyway.

I was primarily wondering about the employees of Kaupthing which let's
say the bank was entirely purchased by others may not be able to decide
that for themselves.

Not only have I seen a Co-Lead from BEA drop out of Babel as their new
owner Oracle also revokes most of their own Eclipse activities (except I
guess a few more or less strategic "goodies" like EclipseLink which
could lead to embarrassment if they dropped that ?;-)

I have confirmation from more than one knowledgeable source, that no
more Eclipse based Workshop follows by Oracle after 10.3!
(again some cheap an easy "Bundle" with 1 or 2 extra plugins may remain,
but no more real product for Portal or other stuff, that moves into
JDeveloper or something similar) but as long as your own company is not
on Larry Ellison's "shopping list" this Christmas, I have no fear about
your commitment towards Eclipse or OFMP ;-)

Cheers,
Werner

Aleksey Aristov wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> on behalf of Weigle Wilczek GmbH I would like co confirm that the
> current financial market situation does not affect our commitment for
> the OFMP project. We will keep on doing our best to stick to our plans
> and believe that OFMP (and open source in the financial world) has a
> great future, especially in cases when financial situation is not
> perfect and costs have to be cut.
> 
> 
> Aleksey Aristov
> Research & Development Director
> OFMP project co-lead
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> Frederic Conrotte wrote:
>> Werner Keil a écrit :
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> Sorry if this may sound a bit blunt
>> Just a bit.
>>
>>> but considering banks around the World and Europe currently worry
>>> about their investments in Iceland this
>>> is pretty sure to have some effect on other branches of Kaupthing
>>> Bank, too.
>> Good guess, the current financial crisis is not helping the project.
>>
>> OFMP version 1.0.0M1, due end of this year, is on its way, don't worry.
>>
>> We will present part of our work during our talk on ESE:
>> http://www.eclipsecon.org/summiteurope2008/sessions?id=188
>>
>> The OFMP relationship to the Eclipse ecosystem is foreseen on the long
>> run, so we are confident that current talk with other Financial
>> institutions during Eclipse Banking Summit and elsewhere will be bear
>> fruits quite soon.
>>
>> Frederic