The Business of Open Source (Score 1)

Open Source projects are driven by interest - i.e. if database/apps server/browser independence is important to you - then you can do something about it. Unfortunately many don't go beyond the complaining status. For some reason, that does not change anything.

We are actually quite busy in all areas above:

Database independence - we started implementing an OMG based workflow engine. This will allow us to do the transaction control in Java and convert the PL/SQL to Java.

We'll discontinue the JBoss specific functionality (MBeans) and convert it to standard J2EE technology.

We'll convert to Java Faces, which produces a bit better HTML UI and is browser independent.

All that requires real work and a commitment for more than an hour per day and actually quite a few years experience with complex systems. It's not easy to contribute to a full featured business application, but the ones who do are able to deliver supreme benefits to their (paying) customers.