Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
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 Enterprise on Jun 4th, 2009
Earlier this week we announced a couple of things. First, a change in our platform strategy, second some new products to implement that strategy. We felt we had to give that strategy a name and “Open Choice”, while unoriginal, best illustrated what we’re doing. And what we’re doing is expanding our support to include Open [...]
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 Uncategorized on Apr 20th, 2009
I’d like to think of myself as an informed prognosticator having worked for Sun for almost 9 years; but this is prognostication nonetheless. I missed my chance to say what I thought of an IBM acquisition but I’ll start by saying – I think I preferred it – it probably would’ve been a better outcome [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 30th, 2009
JBoss adding muscle to Apache CXF. We’ll be increasing our commitment to Apache CXF – in term of both resource and expertise and fully support CXF in future versions of our products. More from Alessio Saldano (JBoss WS Lead), Dan Kulp (PMC Chair for CXF) and Sacha (JBoss CTO). Talking of Sacha – he’s just [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 23rd, 2009
Today we’re announcing a couple of things. First – the immediate availability of JBoss Developer Studio 2.0 (JBDS 2.0). This is a pretty significant release, with many new features including : Support for JBoss ESB, specifically the ability to create projects, deploy, debug and manage configurations. Improvements to the jPDL Graphical Process Designer A new [...]
Posted in java on Mar 9th, 2009
I haven’t done one of these in years but later this week I’ll be joining some familiar faces to discuss the future of Application Servers / Stacks. The Panel is at SD-West in Santa Clara, CA this Thursday from 10.15am – 11.45am (schedule) The session is lead by Chris Haddad from Burton and I’ve worked [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 9th, 2009
JBoss is still hiring. Our Global Professional Services Organization is looking to fill a couple of roles : Job Title: Inside Middleware Solutions Architect Link: https://redhat.ats.hrsmart.com/cgi-bin/a/highlightjob.cgi?jobid=4151 Job Title: Middleware Solutions Architect (LA, Boston, DC/VA/MD) Link: https://redhat.ats.hrsmart.com/cgi-bin/a/searchjobs.cgi
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 4th, 2009
Here’s an interesting customer story that demonstrates just how long JBoss has been used for serious production workloads. The Ecuadorian Internal Revenue Service has been using JBoss App Server (and more recently JBoss App Platform) to run their business since 2002 – they started on version 2.4 – I didn’t even know there was a [...]