If we all knew how to convince the world to use the best technology for a specific purpose, we would have peace on earth, have solved pollution, eradicated poverty, and all developers would be using the Backbase framework to build web applications.
While this is not true and because our crystal ball looking skills are not great, we need to find other ways to predict what will happen with the Web in general and the Backbase framework in particular.
Backbase as a company realized that the Backbase framework and all its competitors are foundation technologies. These technologies are becoming more and more like commodities that developers take for granted to be available freely.
This means that most frameworks and libraries are open source or have free community licenses. So does the Backbase framework. It has a free community license and the open source issue will be solved in due time. When, we don't know, but remember that it took the implementation of the Java...