Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Enterprise on Jun 4th, 2009
Earlier this week we announced a couple of things. First, a change in our platform strategy, second some new products to implement that strategy. We felt we had to give that strategy a name and “Open Choice”, while unoriginal, best illustrated what we’re doing. And what we’re doing is expanding our support to include Open [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 10th, 2009
Spring happens pretty quickly in North Carolina; it arrives overnight and is over in a month. The speed at which everything bursts into life is incredible. So, yet again I’m a little late updating this blog’s header image.
Mainly for my own purposes – the images I use for the header are in this Fickr Set. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 23rd, 2009
Today we’re announcing a couple of things. First – the immediate availability of JBoss Developer Studio 2.0 (JBDS 2.0). This is a pretty significant release, with many new features including :
Support for JBoss ESB, specifically the ability to create projects, deploy, debug and manage configurations.
Improvements to the jPDL Graphical Process Designer
A new Portlet wizard for [...]
Posted in java on Feb 20th, 2009
Last week we hosted the first JBoss Virtual Experience – by all measures it was a great success – 2563 registrants, 3400 visits to the booths, and an average of 300 attendees per session. The technology held up well and we only had a few minor technical issues so kudos to all those involved in [...]
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 principal behind [...]
Posted in TabSweep on Sep 23rd, 2008
Just when I though TSS was dead – SpringSource go and prove me wrong with a 188 reply thread – feels like TSS 2003 ! But man it must be ugly having your business model reviewed in public – it will be interesting to see how SpringSource respond. Now EJB3, Seam and Web Beans will [...]
Posted in Enterprise on Jun 5th, 2008
So now every vendor is claiming a modular architecture for their enterprise Java runtime. This is progress and maybe OSGi really will become the standard framework for enabling modular architectures. Unfortunately people needed this capability 5 years ago.
It’s great to see the innovators rallying around such a good cause – but look at the dates [...]
Posted in Business, open source on Apr 30th, 2008
Talking of Spring – SpringSource’s choice of license for their new ‘platform’ seems to have sparked some discussion over on TSS.
In a way – it’s sad that a perfectly decent product launch is over-shadowed by their choice of license – we (the OpenSource community) still clearly have work to do.
I haven’t decided whether their [...]
Posted in blogging on Apr 30th, 2008
Well almost. My intention was to change the header image (above) with the seasons – but Spring in North Carolina has come and almost gone. I’d better start looking for a summer picture. Fall picture is here if you are interested.