Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
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 / [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]