Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 – see the release [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]