[chasil]

...because Oracle themselves had bought BEA Systems, owner of Weblogic. JBoss was a competitor to Weblogic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEA_Systems

[dralley]

Your timeline is wrong. JBoss was acquired by Red Hat in 2006, then Oracle Linux was announced a few months later also in 2006, then Oracle bought BEA Systems in 2007.

Oracle and Red Hat both entered the bidding for JBoss and Red Hat ended up winning. Larry Ellison took this very poorly.

[chasil]

Interesting, thank you for the correction.

I really remembered the BEA acquisition as the prior event.

[pjmlp]

And now we have JFR in OpenJDK thanks to it.