Yes, Belgium is present on the world-map again!Just to make sure: Let's add another blog-link to boost this topic on the Google charts :-)

The BeJUG is prepping up to get his anual conference on stage. Mark your calendars: 3rd and 4th December. But all of you out there might of have heard already, after all we had all of this surounding it by now:

• Sun reaffirms : "No JBoss at JavaPolis"
• SunBE is anti-matter to clue
• Sun sinks to all new lows and manhandles a JUG
• even a genuine thread at jakarta-general: Sun

So I find myself adding my 2 cents here after asking myself 'why all the fuzz?'

Basically Sun does not want to be paying the stage performance of some guy, service, product they perceive as competition. [period] I can hardly see how this could be a surprise to anyone.

Apparently it surprises even Sun, so they lose themselves in finding some politic correct reasoning for their behaviour (other then the simple competition truth) which goes over non-profit and non-certification paths that are too easily going to be used against them.

IMHO, Sun just likes to hide under the 'politic correct and independant' flag of an orginal grass-root movement as the Java-User-Group to make some marketing shots at the audience... it seems logic to me that crossing the borders of that independance will leave some to bleed. Hoping it will not be the BeJUG however, they are on the other side just wanting that the sponsor injected money will get the speaker-wishlist up on the scene for their members. Just guessing: It would be hard to perceive the presence of some JBoss presentation in there as irrelevant.

I can't help thinking about the US coming to the rescue of Liberty, Deomcracy and Worldwide Peace lately.

READ THIS: What is really enteresting though is that Jacek Ambroziak and Adam Bosworth already have confirmed to show up.