Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
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 java on Mar 8th, 2010
I previously highlighted the fate of OpenSSO – a test case for Oracle and a living experiment for Open Source – possibly allowing us to understand how or whether a project really can outlive it’s corporate backer. Well, it seems that another piece of the Sun OSS portfolio has floated adrift from the Oracle mother-ship. [...]
Posted in Enterprise, java, open source, Red Hat on Feb 24th, 2010
Apparently it was Apache Web Server’s 15th birthday yesterday – congratulations to anyone who’s ever been involved in the project. I doubt any would have thought that 15 years on, Apache would have become the dominant Web Server on the Web and the foundation of one of the most successful and recognized Open Source forges. [...]
Posted in java, open source on Feb 16th, 2010
The JBoss AS team moved to a more rapid and incremental release cycle with the 6.x family and the second milestone was released today (release notes, download, repo.). The release was lead by Brian Stansberry and new features include : Servlet 3.0 / JBoss Web 3.0 JPA 2.0 / Hibernate 3.5 JAX-RS 1.0 / RESTEasy [...]
Posted in Enterprise, java on Feb 1st, 2010
One of the benefits we talk about with Open Source is that the license and collaborative nature can offer some protection for users should the main supporter disappear. Rarely has this been put to test but here’s an example that came across in my feeds today. OpenSSO was a Sun project that Oracle seemingly killed [...]
I guess there’s a chance that we’ll know more tomorrow but regarding the future of Java under Oracle’s control – I’m still neutral to optimistic and sticking to what I said 6 months ago : DZone: With Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, are you concerned at all about some of the potential changes that will come [...]
Yesterday we started a series of Web Casts covering JBoss Application Platforms (Recording, Slides). We didn’t manage to cover all the questions in the Q&A so as promised here they are : Q: When using your Apache & Tomcat bundled software, do you provide any additional security patches above and beyond what the Apache & [...]
There are only 9 days left to submit your talks for JBoss World 2010, in case you need them, here are some good reasons : It’s in Boston, In June. It’s a great city and the snow and ice will probably be mostly gone by June. You get a free conference pass, good for all [...]
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 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 [...]