Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
… and the rise of the lightweight, agile, dynamic, modular Enterprise Java. Java EE has long had the perception of being slow, bloated and monolithic. While the Java EE specification doesn’t prescribe a lightweight, modular implementation; neither does it preclude one. So the negative perception of Java EE is more to do with certain implementations [...]
Posted in Red Hat on Apr 10th, 2012
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Join me next Wednesday 3/14 – I’ll be talking about how to get involved in the JBoss EAP 6 BETA program. World-wide-friendly times : Wednesday, March 14, 2012 | 14:00 UTC / 9am (New York) / 2pm (Paris) / 6:30pm (Mumbai) Wednesday, March 14, 2012 | 19:00 UTC / 2pm (New York) / 7pm (Paris) [...]
Posted in Enterprise, java, Red Hat on Jan 3rd, 2011
Hey, 3 days into the New Year and my second blog post ! Another day, another survey – this one from Tools Vendor ZeroTurnaround. From what I can tell survey participants were self-selected – but the results underline what has been a solid trend over the last several years and I’ve seen the same in [...]
Posted in Business, Enterprise, java, open source, Red Hat on Nov 21st, 2010
There was a fairly innocuous post on the interwebs at the end of last week which Oracle employees have jumped all over in an effort to discredit JBoss. I’ll rise above the petty mud-slinging and instead use this post to explain the relationship between upstream projects that JBoss uses and the downstream platforms that JBoss [...]
Posted in Enterprise, java on Jun 2nd, 2010
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then they produce lame marketing videos, then you win.” – with apologies to the late Mahatma Gandhi. Actually, I’d say if your competitors are producing videos at the rate that the Websphere marketing team are producing them about JBoss I think you [...]
Posted in java on Apr 9th, 2010
First some insight into how my twisted mind works. I rarely believe any bar chart, pie-chart, percentage I see presented unless I can access the raw data myself and draw my own conclusions. I’m not a statistician by trade or education but I’ve spent a lot of time running surveys and analyzing large data sets; [...]
Posted in Enterprise, java, Red Hat on Nov 6th, 2009
This week we GA’d JBoss EAP 5.0. As you’d expect from a new release there’s a long list of new features, capabilities and APIs and at some point I’ll talk about those some more. But the intention of this post is to give you an idea of some of the other less visible things that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 12th, 2009
JBoss World 2009 is just under 3 weeks away and it’s still not too late to register. GEICO CIO Jess Reed will be one of the keynotes this year underlining that JBoss World is a great place to come and learn how other organizations just like you have saved money and improved performance and stability [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 4th, 2009
It’s July 4th and we have an extended weekend in the US which is a good enough excuse to catch up on some blogging; at least until the Strawberry Margaritas start flowing. At Java One this year we announced an initiative called Open Choice which I blogged about previously. Fundamentally Open Choice is about broadening [...]