Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in TabSweep on Apr 30th, 2009
Another couple of super-busy months here at JBoss. If anything the pace of new releases and new projects is increasing. Here are some of the more prominent Community announcements I managed to bookmark : JBoss App Server 5.1.0 CR1 – 5.1 is a pretty big milestone – it includes the new Jopr powered embedded console [...]
Posted in TabSweep, Technology on Dec 4th, 2008
There’s a podcast on DZone with Greg Hinkle on JOPR / JBoss Operations Network (JON) and Application Management. Heiko Rupp has published a guide to writing plugins for JOPR / JON. It looks like SpringSource had their annual developer event this week; Spring are well respected for their technology – but their marketing team seem [...]
Apple are on a roll – best quarter ever, $25bn in the bank and zero debt. They have more cash than Microsoft !! Here’s a good analysis that might surprise some – Apple are doing way better than they’re allowed to disclose through GAAP rules due to the subscription nature of the iPhone. Every cloud [...]
Posted in TabSweep on Sep 23rd, 2008
Just when I though TSS was dead – SpringSource go and prove me wrong with a 188 reply thread – feels like TSS 2003 ! But man it must be ugly having your business model reviewed in public – it will be interesting to see how SpringSource respond. Now EJB3, Seam and Web Beans will [...]
We’re about half way through my first full Atlantic Hurricane Season. Hannah moved through North Carolina pretty quickly and fortunately left nothing but rain. I’ve looked at a few online hurricane trackers – but StormPulse is the nicest I’ve seen. There’s probably a really good, practical reason to run JBoss AS on an iPhone – [...]
Posted in Red Hat, TabSweep, Technology on Sep 3rd, 2008
Red Hat’s Spacewalk (the upstream OSS project for RHN Satellite) seems to be doing pretty well – they have a very active mailing list and are already getting external contributions. Mat Asay casts his perspective over on c-net. Talking of growing communities – interest in JBoss in China is really picking up – there’s a [...]
Bob McWhirter is coming back – have’t met him but I’ve heard good things about him. He’s going to be working on integration of AS 5 and Ruby – that’s going to be pretty neat. Read more on fnokd! JBoss Cache is now searchable – and JBC is turning into a bit of a family [...]
Sacha Labourey on JBoss AS 5, OSGi and beyond on DZone. Bill Burke on REST and JAX-RS. btw there’s a whole Microzone on Java Lobby / DZone dedicated to JBoss. You can now catch up with videos from the JBoss community about JBoss people and technology on YouTube, blip.tv and Streamocracy, Tha VAR Guy on [...]
Saving money by improving performance, cutting development time – seems to be the standard template for JBoss success stories – here are a couple more – Daiwa Securities Amaricas move to JBoss EAP and JBoss Portal and InfoCamere move to JBoss EAP. Robert Tiller (Red hat’s assistant General Council) has provided a pretty accessible explanation [...]
Posted in TabSweep on Jun 25th, 2008
Websphere is 10 years old and in an eWeek.com article by Daryl K. Taft, Steve Mills (IBM’s software head honcho) is quoted as saying that he’s “not particularly concerned with competition” in this space, particularly from open-source offerings and “there are no plans to open-source WebSphere”, “Something of this class of software could never be [...]