Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
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 / application [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 21st, 2008
Last week was a bit quiet on the run up to Christmas but here are a few bits of JBoss related news.
Singapore’s Premier Regional Search Engine powered by Pentaho, RHEL and JBoss.
Another sucessful deployment for JBoss EAP, JBoss Portal and JBoss Rule - Daiwa Securities America. Cheaper :
“Daiwa saved $300,000 by avoiding software licensing and [...]
Posted in Business, open source on Dec 19th, 2008
Three surveys ([1] [2] [3,4]] ) have been rattling around my almost empty pre-christmas inbox this week which give us some useful insight into how open source is being adopted; what drives adoption and what inhibits it. Reading across the surveys - I come up with the following observations and few surprises :
Open Source [...]
Given the big gap between JBoss World 2008 and JBoss World 2009 our marketing folks have come up with a great idea to keep our customers, partners and users up to date on what we’re doing and what we have planned for JBoss next year.
On February 11th, 2009 we’ll be hosting a live on-line conference [...]
Posted in Red Hat on Dec 10th, 2008
Late last week we released two new versions of Red Hat Application Stack for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 respectively. These releases include fixes for security vulnerabilities and update major components such as JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.2 and 4.3, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL. For more information - [...]
Posted in java, open source on Dec 8th, 2008
The only constant is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
— Isaac Asimov
And that, so I’ve been told, was a guiding principal behind [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 25th, 2008
I’ve been using Fedora 9 for about 9 months now (since I joined Red Hat in April) and I’ve been playing with Fedora 10 pre-releases for the last month or so. I use Fedora 9 on a Lenovo Thinkpad everyday, all day. It is a pleasure to use and It’s absolutely rock-solid - setting a [...]
Posted in Technology on Nov 21st, 2008
It’s been a wild week on the US stock markets (no doubt true across the globe). The irrational behaviour we’re seeing has created some interesting situations - a number of brand name companies are trading at or below cash or net asset value.This has caused some other irrational thinking - for example Dave Rosenberg is [...]
Posted in Red Hat on Nov 18th, 2008
A quick message from my sponsor
Matthew Szulik (previously CEO and now Chairman of Red Hat) has been declared Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2008 Overall National Winner and winner in the Technology category. In doing so he (and Red Hat) joins some pretty good company - previous winners include Jeff Bezos [...]
Posted in Enterprise on Nov 10th, 2008
I’ve found it difficult to keep up with blogs in between travel hell so I’m being lazy and combining a whole bunch of items that really deserve longer entries, opinion and elaboration.
Bob McWhirter has been playing with JBoss and Rails integration; clearly he’s made a lot of progress - to the extent where he can [...]