What happens when a commercial vendor (Sun, in this case) does exactly what the Open Source community asks them to do, and open sources a significant piece of software? This session will describe the experience of working on the Jakarta project from inception to the present day, in a unique partnership between an existing open source project (Apache JServ) and commercial vendors that have paid developers participating in the development. Can the two environments combine to create something special, or are they doomed to disagree and fight?