Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Enterprise, java, open source, Red Hat, Technology on Dec 1st, 2009
Zallinger’s “March of Progress” from wikipedia. I’ve been part of the Java ecosystem for long enough to see and be part of every Java EE / J2EE release to date. I still have a Forte SynerJ box-set somewhere – we claimed it as the first fully integrated J2EE 1.2 App Server and IDE – that [...]
Posted in Red Hat on Nov 17th, 2009
Red Hat Summit :: JBoss World :: Boston :: June 22-25, 2010 I think I’ve just about recovered from the last JBoss World. Chicago is a fun place and I’m glad I finally got to spend some time there; next year it’s in one of my favorite cities – Boston. From the email : A [...]
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 Enterprise, java, Red Hat on Nov 6th, 2009
This week we GA’d JBoss EAP 5.0. As you’d expect from a new release there’s a long list of new features, capabilities and APIs and at some point I’ll talk about those some more. But the intention of this post is to give you an idea of some of the other less visible things that [...]
Posted in Red Hat on Apr 6th, 2009
Unsurprisingly and from what I’ve seen personally – tech. conference attendance is a little light this year. But if you have some budget for attending tech. conferences – I think the combined JBoss World / Red Hat Summit (Chicago, Sept 1st-4th) could be just about the best investment you make this year. You’ll learn about [...]
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 Red Hat on Dec 10th, 2008
Late last week we released two new versions of Red Hat Application Stack for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 respectively. These releases include fixes for security vulnerabilities and update major components such as JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.2 and 4.3, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL. For more information – see the release [...]
Posted in Red Hat on Nov 18th, 2008
A quick message from my sponsor Matthew Szulik (previously CEO and now Chairman of Red Hat) has been declared Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2008 Overall National Winner and winner in the Technology category. In doing so he (and Red Hat) joins some pretty good company – previous winners include Jeff Bezos of [...]
Posted in Red Hat on Oct 11th, 2008
We seem to be releasing something every week but this was an especially busy week for JBoss : The big news was the release of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3 – this version improves performance, reliability and security across the board. More information - what’s new (pdf); Pierre Fricke on Rogue Waves, Black Swans and [...]