Blogging Roller

Matt Raible: It's interesting to hear someone from Sun say that "JDO is dead". What are your thoughts? Should Roller change their persistence backend just to satisfy Apache?

I've been following the new bubble hype-masters and it seems to me that, for a lot of folks, Web 2.0 is about enabling companies and investors to profit off of user created content, simpler programming models so that built-to-flip companies can throw up new sites fast and slicky-slick AJAX interfaces to lure investors and unsuspecting users to the shiny new services.

So Henri, you're right, Web 2.0 is not about having cool software to install on your own personal web server, it's about getting locked into services provided by and trusting your data to Web sites that you do not control. It doesn't have to be that way, of course, and perhaps I'm exaggerating a bit just for fun (and hits). But maybe we need a list of "the best open source Web 2.0 software" -- and it would include things like open source blog servers, wiki servers, photo galleries, content management systems, social bookmarking clones and etc. Where would you start looking for such software? Google for "open source web 2.0" and where do you end up? Lucky you Henri, you're already there.