Why to care about JBoss Developer Studio
by Karsten Wade
Almost as if in response to criticism that JBoss Developer Studio doesn’t matter, JBoss CTO and iconoclast Sacha Labourey spoke to JBoss.org to answer, Why JBoss Developer Studio, and why you should care.
While you can freely get all of these open Source plugins, what we have also done is released all of them in an easy-to-consume package that we sell as part of a subscription for $99. For that price, you not only get access to JBDS, but you also get access to our Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) as well as Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Essentially, for that price, you get everything you need to develop enterprise-grade applications, from the OS to a full EE-certified Application Server and complete tooling suite - we do not provide a laptop though
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