It’s one thing to lose a sales team. It’s quite another – and much more dire – to lose one’s development team, and especially in an open-source company. This isn’t to say, for example, that JBoss’ sales team isn’t worth keeping around: if you’re an open-source vendor you know how hard it can be to find salespeople that truly grok open source and sell accordingly.
But development is the lifeblood of an open-source project and company, and if JBoss is losing more than a trickle of its committers, Red Hat has serious problems that it needs to address.
Link: News.com
