Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Business, Enterprise, java, open source, Red Hat on Nov 21st, 2010
There was a fairly innocuous post on the interwebs at the end of last week which Oracle employees have jumped all over in an effort to discredit JBoss. I’ll rise above the petty mud-slinging and instead use this post to explain the relationship between upstream projects that JBoss uses and the downstream platforms that JBoss [...]
Posted in Business, Enterprise, java, Red Hat on Nov 9th, 2009
Another nice score card from Gartner puts JBoss Enterprise App. Platform in the leader’s quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers. That’s the fourth year in a row, in case you were wondering. Unscientific as it is – comparing with last year I’d say the leaders are widening the gap (cumulative advantage [...]
Posted in Business, open source on Dec 19th, 2008
Three surveys ([1] [2] [3,4]] ) have been rattling around my almost empty pre-christmas inbox this week which give us some useful insight into how open source is being adopted; what drives adoption and what inhibits it. Reading across the surveys – I come up with the following observations and few surprises : Open Source [...]
Given the big gap between JBoss World 2008 and JBoss World 2009 our marketing folks have come up with a great idea to keep our customers, partners and users up to date on what we’re doing and what we have planned for JBoss next year. On February 11th, 2009 we’ll be hosting a live on-line [...]
As you’re probably already aware – I’m always ready to have a chuckle at IBM’s expense – I have nothing in particular against IBM but if you can’t take the piss out of a mammoth company like IBM who can you have fun with ? I didn’t get to go to Devoxx but I followed [...]
Posted in Business, Technology on Nov 26th, 2008
Since first posting – I’ve added Open Office and Java FX – just goes to show – Sun have a lot of stuff. I promised myself I wouldn’t bite; yet here I am. I’m contributing to the “Here’s what Sun should do meme”. And why not - I’m as good a keyboard-CEO as the next [...]
Posted in Business, Enterprise on Oct 29th, 2008
John Willis has some advice on “How to Save $10 Million Dollars While Staring into the Abyss” by, among other things, replacing AIX with Linux and Websphere with JBoss. And that is precisely what many people are doing … When I saw this headline in my alerts – “Nigerian Bank Chooses Red Hat and JBoss [...]
Posted in Business on Oct 7th, 2008
The Websphere Marketing team must be overjoyed to read the recent EDC report – “Application Servers 2008 Rankings” by Janel Garvin (it’s free but you need to register). The report is almost too good to be true for Big Blue – Not only does IBM win outright but it also kicks BEA / Oracle’s butt [...]
Posted in Business, Enterprise, Red Hat on Sep 6th, 2008
As I’ve said before – if you are trying to grow a business based on Subscriptions and Open Source Software that is already freely available then everything else you provide – productization and certification, consulting and support has to be the best. Red Hat, unlike many of it’s competitors has decided to make technical support [...]
Posted in Business on Aug 27th, 2008
I left Sun on good terms and I still think it’s a great company full of super-smart people that have done great, no, “amazing” things. I still have many friends who shared the Sun experience (a few of whom are still enjoying employment at Sun). I mention that because I don’t want to sound like [...]