Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 12th, 2009
JBoss World 2009 is just under 3 weeks away and it’s still not too late to register. GEICO CIO Jess Reed will be one of the keynotes this year underlining that JBoss World is a great place to come and learn how other organizations just like you have saved money and improved performance and stability [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 6th, 2009
Here’s an interview I did for DZone a while back about Red Hat’s involvement with OpenJDK. Some additional useful links : OpenJDK project IcedTea project IcedTea history Gary Benson’s Blog Andrew Hughes’ Blog Andrew Haley’s Blog Lillian Angel’s Blog Mark Wielaard’s Blog
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 3rd, 2009
I’m still amazed by the diversity of wildlife we see in North Carolina (and previously in California). I seem to remember very little about English wildlife other than Hedgehogs, Crows and the occasional Fox and numerous brown and grey bugs. Contrast that two these two colorful critters spotted in the last few days. The first [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 27th, 2009
An increasing amount of the bigger deals I see at JBoss come at the expense of our competitors like Oracle and IBM. Technology decisions that were made 5, 6 or 7 years ago are being reviewed and JBoss is the clear alternative If you are looking to migrate from Weblogic or Websphere we have a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 6th, 2009
A few weeks back JBoss Enterprise App. Platform 4.3 achieved Common Criteria Certification at Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 2+ – here’s the press release and here’s the evaluators updated page. Common Criteria Evaluation is an internationally recognized standard that defines a framework for computer systems users to specify security requirements; for vendors to implement them [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 4th, 2009
It’s July 4th and we have an extended weekend in the US which is a good enough excuse to catch up on some blogging; at least until the Strawberry Margaritas start flowing. At Java One this year we announced an initiative called Open Choice which I blogged about previously. Fundamentally Open Choice is about broadening [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 11th, 2009
This week, we announced a partnership with eXo – creator of the Open Source eXo platform. This strategic agreement allows us to integrate and distribute each others’ technology thus providing a mutual competitive advantage. This is no doubt good for both company’s products but I think the important point is that JBoss is 1. willing [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 9th, 2009
From the “release early and often” files : JBoss Messaging 2.0 beta is out. According to JBM lead, Tim Fox – New features include, performance, performance, performance, flexible clustering, seamless high-availability, large message support. See Tim’s announcement for details. Thomas Diesler has some thoughts on how the JBoss Microcontainer could fully implement the OSGi spec. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 4th, 2009
As expected, JavaOne was interesting. For the first time in 12 years I actually attended more than a couple of sessions; but that isn’t why it was interesting. It was interesting because we witnessed the ceremonial passing of the Java One torch from Sun to Oracle and a fairly public goodbye from Schwartz and McNealy. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28th, 2009
Over the last ten years – every year has been proclaimed the year that Java dies. And every year people are proven wrong and I think that will continue to happen for another 20 or 30 years. To put it into perspective COBOL, another fairly sucessful language is 50 (fifty) years old this month. Other [...]