[rules-users] Drools in production use vs. JBoss BRMS commercially supported version?

[dc tech]

Thanks Mark.
Agreeing with you that the Enterprise release is clearly more stable, the
question really is how stable is the community release? For instance,
Tomcat's 'community' release i.e. the version downloaded from Apache
directly is very, very mature and stable. We've run that for many years with
hardly any problems. Is the Drools community release close to that? Would we
face big risks going with it in a production environment? I should add that
the environment is not a financial type of system and we can probably live
with a little bit of risk.

Thanks again.

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Mark Proctor <mproctor at codehaus.org> wrote:

> On 04/01/2011 01:41, dc tech wrote:
> > I wonder if any, or perhaps many,  of you are using Drools community
> > version in production systems? Or are you using the jBoss BRMS - the
> > commercially supported version?
> >
> > If you are using the community version, what is your sense of
> > stability of the releases?
> The commercial project code base is supported for 5 years and bugs are
> patched without forcing you to include new features or apis. It's tested
> against a wider range of projects and application servers and releases
> are generally based on a given corporate schedule.
>
> The project is released when it's ready and bug fixes are not
> backported, so you always need to be running bleeding edge to get latest
> bug fixes. So while you get the bug fixes, you also get all the new
> features which haven't had much testing yet and can introduce some level
> of instability. This puts a lot more onus, and thus cost, onto the end
> user to test more thoroughly in their environments.
>
> Mark
> > On 1/3/11, smogstate<smogstate at yahoo.com>  wrote:
> >> I have same issue. Can anyone help?
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