JBoss Press Articles Archives

February 2007

JBoss Community Leader Speaks Out on New Role. Bob McWhirter: "I watched JBoss over the past year shepherd Drools to an amazing product...I became convinced that they are dedicated to improving the community roots from which JBoss sprang." Darryl Taft, eWeek. February 7, 2007.

JBoss gets a new community lead. "Community was always one of the strongest attributes that JBoss had." Matt Asay, InfoWorld "Open Sources" blog. February 7, 2007.

December 2006

Special report: Java EE 5 faces the SOA test, part 3. In this last of three-part series, Shaun Connolly, JBoss Division vice president of product management, discusses key strengths of Java EE 5.0 -- incluing the simplification of persistence, JavaServer Faces, and increased performance -- that make it easier to create Web services. Colleen Frye, SearchWebServices.com. December 20, 2006.

Seam Streamlines AJAX Development. "With Seam, programmers can create AJAX-based applications without having to learn JavaScript." Aaron Tan, ZDNet Asia. December 18, 2006.

Ten companies where SOA made a difference in 2006. JBoss customer DreamWorks Animation SKG is called out for its transition to SOA. "Abe Wong, head of IT for DreamWorks Animation, cites the reusability of SOA-based components as the greatest advantage coming out of the project." Joe McKendrick, ZDNet "Service-Oriented Architecture" Blog. December 17, 2006.

Special report: Java EE 5 faces the SOA test, part 2. In this second of three-part series, Shaun Connolly, JBoss Division vice president of product management, discusses enterprise-grade SOA and what it means for scalability, reliability, and manageability in Java EE 5.0. Colleen Frye, SearchWebServices.com. December 13, 2006.

JBoss Tackles AJAX, Web 2.0 with Seam Update. Seam is "really what JBoss should be about: Green-field research with real applications into the enterprise." Darryl K. Taft, eWeek. December 13, 2006.

Special report: Java EE 5 faces the SOA test, part 1. In this first of three-part series, Shaun Connolly, JBoss Division vice president of product management, discusses the Java EE 5.0 approach to SOA. "Java EE 5 has a lot of relevance as the platform for the component model and hosting Web service end points and the platform for portals and Web interfaces." Colleen Frye, SearchWebServices.com. December 6, 2006.

Java EE 5 server support: A look into "a mixed bag". This article looks at Java EE 5.0 and where the application server vendors stand in their support. Shaun Connolly, JBoss Division vice president of product management, reiterates JBoss' a la carte approach to Java EE 5.0 and support for key features like EJB3 and JSF in the current JBoss Application Server 4.x platform. Rich Seeley, SearchWebServices.com. December 4, 2006.

November 2006

Marc Fleury: The Open-Source MC. "Fleury's brash, bare-knuckled style is a result of having come up in the 'streets' of the industry." Darryl K. Taft, eWeek Blog. November 27, 2006.

JBoss, Bull Ink Research, Services Pact. This news story covers the strategic partnership between Bull and JBoss that "could see the Red Hat subsidiary's open-source middleware used more widely in Europe." James Niccolai, IDG News Service. November 21, 2006.

JBoss Sets Sights on Open-Source SOA Supremacy with ESB. "JBoss ESB represents the latest piece of Red Hat's set of low-cost SOA building blocks for modern applications." Darryl K. Taft, eWeek. November 20, 2006.

Open source rule management. This review compares Jess and JBoss Rules 3.2 and finds both "deliver solid rule tools and respectable performance at a nice price." James Owens, InfoWorld. November 2, 2006.

September 2006

Red Hat Gives Green Light To JBoss Projects. "Half a year after being scooped up by Red Hat, it's business as usual for JBoss" Alex Handy, SD Times. September 15, 2006.

August 2006

JBoss Portal 2.4 Opens For Developers. "Red Hat's JBoss division announced the availability of a new version of their portal software, with full clustered content management system capabilities and Web Service for Remote Portlet (WSRP) support." David A. Utter, WebProNews. August 30, 2006.

New wave. "Thanks to open standards, the market for application servers is a lot friendlier than it used to be." DS. Michael Gallagher, Government Computer News. August 7, 2006.

July 2006

Open-source on Windows the next big thing?. "Forget the LAMP application stack; here comes WAMP." Eric Lai, Computerworld. July 27, 2006.

The secret of successful open source companies (The JBoss example). "At OSCON next week, I'm giving a presentation entitled Making Sales While Making Friends: Lessons Learned from Open Source Businesses." Posted by Matt Asay, "Open Resource" Blog, InfoWorld.com. July 21, 2006.

Open Source In EHarmony Development Bliss. " When it comes to avoiding outages that cost a business $1,000 per minute of downtime, the matchmaking site eHarmony prefers an open source stack for its operations." David A. Utter, WebProNews. July 6, 2006.

Red Hat Clarifies Its JBoss Vision. "JBoss, now a division of Red Hat, has clarified its vision of the future, which includes a simplified development model and new middleware stacks from its new parent company." Alex Handy, SD Times. July 1, 2006.

June 2006

An Open Enterprise Trends interview with Gavin King, founder of Seam, Hibernate Open Source Projects. "Seam 1.0 has gone GA this month, and may have ignited the latest Java revolution." Vance McCarthy, Open Enterprise Trends. June 29, 2006.

Special Report: BPM inside the belly of the SOA whale, part 3. "The future of BPM and SOA is so bright you might have to wear shades." Colleen Frye, SearchWebServices.com. June 29, 2006.

New Unisys Solution Streamlines Migrations to JBoss. Unisys JBoss Migration Solution makes it easier to plan architectural transition and deploy SOA delivering real business value; minimizes risk and maximizes ROI. June 13, 2006.

Red Hat Acquisition Just Start For JBoss. "Fans and foes alike use a host of carefully chosen words when describing the famously combative JBoss founder Marc Fleury." Ken Spencer, Brown Investor's Busines Daily. June 16, 2006.

Bodog gambles on Linux and JBoss, and wins. "Bodog.com is a casino, sport-betting emporium, and online poker palace." Tina Gasperson, NewsForge. June 15, 2006.

JBoss Grows Up. "The force behind the self-proclaimed "professional open source" strategy has had its rite of passage and is now entering adulthood as a division of Red Hat." Darryl K. Taft, eWeek. June 13, 2006.

JBoss to open systems management. "JBoss Inc. is opening up its Operations Network (ON) agent technology to developers in a bid to drive standards in opensource systems management." China Martens, IDG News Service. June 13, 2006.

JBoss SEAM 1.0: rethinking web application architecture. "SEAM represents a redefinition of web application architecture that extends the POJO + annotation-driven and configuration-by-exception programming model of EJB 3.0 into the entire web application stack, while unifying JSF, EJB, AJAX, and business process management (jBPM) into one tightly-integrated framework." Floyd Marinescu, InfoQ.com. June 13, 2006.

May 2006

JBoss's Marc Fleury on SOA, ESB and OSS. "JBoss's impact has been huge: Large commercial software vendors profess to love (some) open source as never before, while gleefully seeking ways to 'pull a JBoss' on their fast-commoditizing competitors. Services and subscription models are all the rage." Dana Gardner, ZDNet "BriefingsDirect" Blog. May 30, 2006.

There's more to JBoss Seam than it seems. "Seam is a Web application framework but it's more than that. It's the next level of simplifying EE5." Rich Seeley, SearcWebServices.com. May 24, 2006.

SOA lets insurers make the most of software modules and legacy data. "Two major UK insurance companies have taken different approaches to cutting costs by using service oriented architectures." Will Hadfield and Christian Annesley, ComputerWeekly.com. May 23, 2006.

Sun's Schwartz Welcomes Bad Boy Fleury To JavaOne Stage. "Marc Fleury, CEO of JBoss Inc., took the stage at the opening keynote of JavaOne wearing a red beret." Charles Babcock, InformationWeek. May 16, 2006.

Suite Stacks. "Open-source software combos challenge conventional views of enterprise software. Joab Jackson, Government Computer News. May 15, 2006.

April 2006

Software firm JBoss bought for $350M. "In 1999, few people had heard of "open source" software when Atlanta entrepreneur Marc Fleury started JBoss Inc. out of his in-laws' home. Today, it has become one of the hottest trends in technology and will likely make Fleury -- and his investors -- rich. Very rich." Justin Rubner, Atlanta Business Chronicle. April 21, 2006.

An Open-Source Lightning Rod. "Marc Fleury has taken JBoss to the top, but he has alienated many along the way. Sarah Lacy, with Brian Grow, BusinessWeek Online. April 10, 2006.

Review: JBoss Portal 2.2.1. "JBoss Portal Version 2.2.1's usability and easy deployment process make it a good fit for businesses that need a flexible portal platform fast." Jim Rapoza, eWeek. April 3, 2006.

Orbitz gets up and running fast with open source. "Open source tools allow travel site to keep pace with well-funded competitors. Galen Gruman, InfoWorld.com. April 3, 2006.

March 2006

CEO: JBoss Is Not for Sale (For Now). "'There are many options in front of JBoss. There always were And whatever option is in front of us, if we choose it, it will be because we strongly feel that that's the way to continue with our mission.'" Darryl K. Taft, eWeek. March 30, 2006.

Beware of Those Calling Themselves Open Source. "It's this unfree software that some people have self-styled as open source that creates confusion. If people would follow the lead of someone like JBoss who licensed their code under the lesser GPL, then the concept would work. JBoss is software that anybody can use, copy, modify and redistribute freely without having to ask for authorization from anyone." Posted by Tom Adelstein. Lxer, March 30, 2006.

Six Options For Open-Source Support . "Where do you turn to keep open-source applications running smoothly?" Raven Zachary, Optimize Magazine, March 2006.

February 2006

JBoss is not Linux. "In the emerging industry we call open source, finding people to emulate does not come easily. JBoss in particular, has demonstrated a successful commercial model, about which few Linux people know and fewer understand." Tom Adelstein, LXer, February 23, 2006.

Will major vendors dilute open source?. "Commercial software giants such as Oracle and IBM are moving deeper into and changing the face of the open source community by snapping up start-ups." Jennifer Mears and Ann Bednarz, Network World, 2/20/06.

IBM are not good enough. "IT giant fails to provide support for SJ's ticketing system." Lars Danielsson, ComputerSweden. #13/2006.

Queensland Transport saves with JBoss. "Not having to pay for a J2EE development environment thanks to JBoss is proving to be a boon for many local enterprises, including Queensland Transport." Rodney Gedda, Computerworld. February 17, 2006.

Free Code for Sale: The New Business of Open Source. "Open source is becoming a vital piece of enterprise infrastructures. Open-source development is becoming a moneymaking proposition. And now understanding the companies that sell and the communities that create open-source code is becoming a critical part of the CIO's job." Christopher Koch, CIO Magazine. February 15, 2006.

Some circles embrace open source technology. "John Destefano doesn't fit the description of a high-stakes gambler. Yet, as the product manager at Hartford Hospital, he's taking chances with open source software. As he sees it, they are carefully considered chances, likely to reap rewards for his hospital." Fred Bazzoli, Healthcare IT News. February 1, 2006.

December 2005

The Great Software Platform Hoax. "Big vendors keep trying to sell customers on grand architectural plans for all their computing needs. Too bad they're wrong." Greg Gianforte, BusinessWeek Online, December 12, 2005.

September 2005

Open Source Goes Corporate. "One line of code at a time, application by application, Web server by Web server, the data centers of a growing number of major companies are taking on a new personality, one that smells of the ocean and waddles when it walks. The trend is open-source software..." Larry Greenemeier, InformatwionWeek, September 26, 2005.

5 stars of open-source products. "If you're not using these tools, you may be missing out." Alan Joch, Federal Computer Week, September 26, 2005.

June 2005

Open Source Catching On in Travel Industry. "A "perfect storm" of forces is converging that will lead open source to dominate the information technology systems of the travel industry by 2007" Brian R. Hook, LinuxInsider. June 1, 2005.

April 2005

Open Wallets for Open Source Software . "Despite being burned once, venture capitalists see fresh opportunities in start-ups that make open-source software." Gary Rivlin, The New York Times. April 27, 2005.

March 2005

Welcome to a New World: JBoss World 2005. "...the new announcements and the high level of conference attendance reveal JBoss not as a single open source project or even a company, but increasingly as a community of inter-related enterprise participants." Chris Adamson, OnJava.com. March 9, 2005.

Market position counts more with open source. "Once you become dominant among open-source contenders, IT attention divides between you versus a proprietary supplier, not between you and the closest open-source alternative." Charles Babcock, InformationWeek Windows Weblog. March 4, 2005.

January 2005

Open Source Dominates Java Landscape. BZ Research survey shows JBoss most widely deployed application server. Yvonne Lee, SD Times. January 1, 2005.

Industry Outlook 2005: Software: Expect the Giants to Stay Sluggish. "JBoss is part of a new generation of companies taking software built in the open-source method into virtually every corner of the industry." Jim Kerstetter and Steve Hamm, Business Week. January 10, 2005.

December 2004

JBoss to unveil Enterprise Middleware System. JBoss announces it has re-branded its various offerings under the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS) brand, better positioning it to compete with the likes of IBM Corp's WebSphere stack. Matthew Aslett, Computer Business Review. December 13, 2004.

Java specialist on look-out for more resellers to sell open-source offering. "Java specialist JBoss is looking to expand its channel in 2005 following the launch of its new complete open-source middleware stack." Sara Yirrell, Computing. December 13, 2004.

Top 50 Technology Innovators. JBoss is named one of the top 50 technology innovators by the editors of VARBusiness for delivering "JBoss Application Server 4.0...that is both a milestone product release for the company and the first open-source app server to be certified compatible with the J2EE 1.4 specification." Editors, VARBusiness. December 12, 2004.

Angels in the Architecture. Ameritrade leverages JBoss federated project, JGroups, for horizontal scalability. Carol Weismann, SD Times. December 1, 2004.

November 2004

HP promises major Linux boost. "Deal with JBoss will 'address migration concerns' for mainstream customers." Rob Jacques, VNUNet. November 16, 2004.

HP supports JBoss as Dell mulls it over. Hewlett-Packard Co has announced that it will be providing first call support for JBoss Inc's open source application server product, while Dell Inc has also revealed that it is watching its progress with interest. CBRonline. November 17, 2004.

October 2004

JBoss moves up to business processes. With jBPM, JBoss makes their first step into business process management. Peter Abrahams, IT Analysis. October 20, 2004.

Redemption for JBoss' Boss. "Analysts estimate the market for all infrastructure software is creeping toward $30 billion per year. It's must-have stuff for Internet-savvy companies. And JBoss's product could be to that market what open-source Linux has proven to be to operating systems -- the low-cost alternative that keeps the big guys up at night." Jim Kerstetter, BusinessWeek. October 19, 2004.

September 2004

Liberté, Egalité, Linux. France's Inland Revenue Service moves to open source for its COPERNIC initiative -- an overhaul of the entire IT infrastructure for the country's tax system. Jean-Marie Lapeyre, COPERNIC's Technical Director, comments, "The JBoss application server was selected for its interoperability with existing infrastructure and its ease of maintenance...Through a detailed evaluation conducted during the tender process, we have been able to check the reliability and performance of the proposed solution, as well as the high quality support to be provided by Atos Origin and JBoss Inc." Paul Hirons, Government IT. September 2004.

JBoss Announces. JBoss, with their latest announcements, are saying that they are enterprise ready and ready to compete directly with the established non-open-source vendors. Peter Abrahams, IT-Director.com. September 24, 2004.

August 2004

Hands-On: Is JBoss Ready for Your Enterprise? 6 step assessment of JBoss' maturity and enterprise readiness. Bernard Golden, Integration Developer News. August 28, 2004.

How Open Source Stacks Up "[Marc] Fleury has clear ambitions about what the next generation of open-source companies can achieve, following in the footsteps of Red Hat and a few others." T.C. Doyle, VARBusiness. August 3, 2004.

Marc Fleury blog on Open Source Licensing Options. Titled "From GPL to BSD to LGPL: On the Issue of Business Friendliness". The JBoss Matrix. August 2, 2004.

July 2004

DH Brown Report on JBoss Inc. Report on JBoss and Professional Open Source Model by Pierre Fricke, DH Brown, VP and Lead Analyst, Web Application Infrastructure. July 13, 2004.

June 2004

IT Conversations featuring Marc Fleury. Marc Fleury speaks with guest producer Scott Mace about the state of professional open source, Java and EJB3, Eclipse, .Net, Mono, application development for rich Internet clients, Red Hat's success and detractors, Sun's detente with Microsoft, and why trained physicists such as himself make good Internet application innovators. June 28, 2004.

May 2004

The Next Generation of Open Source. This cover story looks at emerging open source companies JBoss and MySQL. Marc Fleury explains, "What we deliver to the market is the best of both worlds open source, but developed within the company." Matthew Aslett, Computer Business Review. May 2004.

April 2004

Investing in Professional Open Source. This cover story features an in-depth interview with David Skok of Matrix Partners, lead investor in JBoss. Skok comments that "One of the things that impressed us most about JBoss is that it has been profitable since the beginning,and expects to continue operating that way into the future." Jeremy Geelan, Java Developer's Journal. April 2004.

Succeeding with Open Source. Upcoming book by Bernard Golden. Succeeding with Open Source is the first book written specifically for IT managers who need to evaluate, select, and use open-source software. Available August 6, 2004.