Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Enterprise, Red Hat on Sep 9th, 2008
Today we’re announcing the first Feature Pack (FP) for JBoss EAP (Enterprise App. Platform) - EAP 4.3 CP02 FP01. The Feature Pack concept is pretty new to JBoss so I thought it would be worth a quick post to describe what a feature pack is. While I’m at it - I’ll quickly describe some of [...]
Posted in Business, Enterprise, Red Hat on Sep 6th, 2008
As I’ve said before - if you are trying to grow a business based on Subscriptions and Open Source Software that is already freely available then everything else you provide - productization and certification, consulting and support has to be the best. Red Hat, unlike many of it’s competitors has decided to make technical support [...]
Posted in Red Hat, TabSweep, Technology on Sep 3rd, 2008
Red Hat’s Spacewalk (the upstream OSS project for RHN Satellite) seems to be doing pretty well - they have a very active mailing list and are already getting external contributions. Mat Asay casts his perspective over on c-net.
Talking of growing communities - interest in JBoss in China is really picking up - there’s a new [...]
Bob McWhirter is coming back - have’t met him but I’ve heard good things about him. He’s going to be working on integration of AS 5 and Ruby - that’s going to be pretty neat. Read more on fnokd!
JBoss Cache is now searchable - and JBC is turning into a bit of a family project [...]
Sacha Labourey on JBoss AS 5, OSGi and beyond on DZone. Bill Burke on REST and JAX-RS. btw there’s a whole Microzone on Java Lobby / DZone dedicated to JBoss.
You can now catch up with videos from the JBoss community about JBoss people and technology on YouTube, blip.tv and Streamocracy,
Tha VAR Guy on Red Hat, [...]
Posted in Red Hat on Aug 13th, 2008
The trophy case for JBoss is looking pretty full right now. As well as great report cards from Gartner and Forrester, apparently JBoss App Server is a Winner in the 6th annual SD Times 100 list. JBoss Drools and JBoss ESB both won BOSSies recently too.
On the subject of popularity contests JBoss Middleware has also [...]
Posted in java on Jun 22nd, 2008
I’m going to attempt to answer some of the comments that last week’s post received. Problem is - there were a lot of them - spread across Reddit, Slashdot, Digg, DZone (and again), InfoQ and the blogosphere. I clearly can’t reply to them all so I’ve grouped them and will answer generally.
But first - I’d [...]
Posted in open source on Jun 19th, 2008
[also read part 2]
At JavaOne in May, 2006, Sun Microsystems announced they were going to release Java as free software under the terms of the GPL. The size of the task (6.5 million lines of code) was only eclipsed by the size of the opportunity for Java as a free and open technology.
At JavaOne in [...]
Posted in Business on Jun 9th, 2008
There’s been an interesting thread on the “Open Source Business’ Glass Ceiling” over the last couple of months that I’ve been meaning to comment on. I think Marten Mickos’ initial categorization of customer willingness to pay for support is perhaps a little too simplistic; or maybe too abstract.
As a recap - Marten asserts that there [...]
Posted in Business, Enterprise, Red Hat, Technology on Jun 5th, 2008
JBoss.org has had unparalleled success in launching innovative OSS tech. into the enterprise - something not lost on the folks at Railo. More on Sacha’s blog
Bill Burke, esteemed JBoss old-timer and fellow at Red Hat continues to make progress with RESTEasy (an implementation of JSR-311 aka JAX-RS) - if my inbox is anything to go [...]