Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Enterprise, java, Red Hat on Jan 3rd, 2011
Hey, 3 days into the New Year and my second blog post ! Another day, another survey – this one from Tools Vendor ZeroTurnaround. From what I can tell survey participants were self-selected – but the results underline what has been a solid trend over the last several years and I’ve seen the same in [...]
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 java on Apr 9th, 2010
First some insight into how my twisted mind works. I rarely believe any bar chart, pie-chart, percentage I see presented unless I can access the raw data myself and draw my own conclusions. I’m not a statistician by trade or education but I’ve spent a lot of time running surveys and analyzing large data sets; [...]
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 Jan 4th, 2009
I just noticed the JBoss AS 5.0.0 GA community release downloads had a strong start over the break – ~40k in 3 weeks – that’s more than 5.0.0 CR2 accumulated in 3 months (note I’m only looking at the downloads reported from JBoss.org). OpenLogic have the results of a survey on Open Source web / [...]
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 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 Enterprise on Jun 5th, 2008
So now every vendor is claiming a modular architecture for their enterprise Java runtime. This is progress and maybe OSGi really will become the standard framework for enabling modular architectures. Unfortunately people needed this capability 5 years ago. It’s great to see the innovators rallying around such a good cause – but look at the [...]