Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
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 Jan 14th, 2009
Back in June I stumbled across code_swarm – a very nice visualization of the commit history of a software project. I hinted on an internal list that it would be nice to see visualizations for JBoss projects and lo-and-behold – they’ve started appearing (I’m not suggesting for one moment that anyone takes a blind bit [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Technology on Jun 4th, 2008
David Ward interviewed on DZone talking mainly about JBDS but also about Seam, the platforms, jBPM and what’s coming in AS 5.0 – good overview if you’re a JBoss n00b like me. It’s always great to see your own products streamlining business and saving customers money – but optimization often has consequences. JBoss Portal has [...]
Posted in Enterprise, Google on Feb 28th, 2008
Over a year after acquiring JotSpot, Google have just announced the launch of Google Sites – currently available as a Google Apps service and therefore aimed at organizations rather than individuals. I had a very quick look this morning and it’s pretty nice (and pretty free) – it really pulls together the other services (Documents, [...]