Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Enterprise, Red Hat, java on Nov 6th, 2009
This week we GA’d JBoss EAP 5.0. As you’d expect from a new release there’s a long list of new features, capabilities and APIs and at some point I’ll talk about those some more. But the intention of this post is to give you an idea of some of the other less visible things that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 12th, 2009
JBoss World 2009 is just under 3 weeks away and it’s still not too late to register. GEICO CIO Jess Reed will be one of the keynotes this year underlining that JBoss World is a great place to come and learn how other organizations just like you have saved money and improved performance and stability [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 6th, 2009
Here’s an interview I did for DZone a while back about Red Hat’s involvement with OpenJDK. Some additional useful links : OpenJDK project IcedTea project IcedTea history Gary Benson’s Blog Andrew Hughes’ Blog Andrew Haley’s Blog Lillian Angel’s Blog Mark Wielaard’s Blog
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 6th, 2009
A few weeks back JBoss Enterprise App. Platform 4.3 achieved Common Criteria Certification at Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 2+ – here’s the press release and here’s the evaluators updated page. Common Criteria Evaluation is an internationally recognized standard that defines a framework for computer systems users to specify security requirements; for vendors to implement them [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28th, 2009
Over the last ten years – every year has been proclaimed the year that Java dies. And every year people are proven wrong and I think that will continue to happen for another 20 or 30 years. To put it into perspective COBOL, another fairly sucessful language is 50 (fifty) years old this month. Other [...]
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 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 Feb 7th, 2009
This year JBoss World will be colocated with Red Hat summit in Chicago from September 1st to the 4th. Last week we opened the call for papers and you have just over a month to submit a proposal. The main categories are : Emerging and Next-generation Technology: Tell us how you are using and/or extending [...]
Posted in Enterprise, Uncategorized on Jan 22nd, 2009
RHEL 5.3 was released this week and one of the major new features is the inclusion of and full production support for OpenJDK. As I mentioned earlier – that’s great news for OpenJDK adoption and great news for RHEL and JBoss customers – Red Hat can now support a full Enterprise Linux and Java stack [...]
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 / [...]