Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
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 [...]
Apple are on a roll – best quarter ever, $25bn in the bank and zero debt. They have more cash than Microsoft !! Here’s a good analysis that might surprise some – Apple are doing way better than they’re allowed to disclose through GAAP rules due to the subscription nature of the iPhone. Every cloud [...]