Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
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 20th, 2009
Today Red Hat announced the availability of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 5.3 (press release, blog entry) one of the major enhancement is the inclusion of and full production support for OpenJDK 1.6 : Inclusion of OpenJDK : OpenJDK is a high-performance, fully open source implementation of Java SE 6. OpenJDK is based on the [...]
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 on Jul 6th, 2008
Some good commentary on Microsoft’s Vista flop on SeekingAlpha – interestingly Windows XP sales are booming. This creates an interesting situation for Microsoft. As I’ve mentioned before – they’re increasingly competing against some fast moving competitors (Linux and OS/X) with some very old, quickly decaying technology (Windows XP). So while selling XP might make short [...]
Posted in Cogitation, Red Hat on Jun 10th, 2008
I wonder if Mike Desjardins has found a niche – popularizing Open Source technology through music. The lyrics are pretty good – though we might have to have them reviewed by the Hibernate team for technical accuracy and consistency A different perspective on our Solar system from the NASA’s Cassini probe – the pictures are [...]
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 [...]