Marc Fleury is the chairman, president, and CEO of JBoss. He developed the first release of the open source JBoss Application Server in 1999 while working as an independent consultant and later founded Atlanta-based JBoss in 2001 to provide support services, including training, support, consulting and documentation for JBoss AS. Today, the JBoss product line has expanded beyond JBoss AS, which remains the flagship product in the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS). Marc was previously with Sun Microsystems, where he held engineering and sales positions in the United States and France. Marc is a graduate of France's Ecole Polytechnique, where he also earned a PhD in Physics for experimental work performed as a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds a Master's in Theoretical Physics from the Ecole Nationale Superieure, rue d'Ulm. Marc also served as a lieutenant in the French paratroopers.
In his latest JBoss blog at JBoss.com, Enterprise Open Source Conference 2006
keynoter Marc Fleury (pictured) writes: BEA and IBM are doing a good
marketing job of spinning their "strategy." BEA calls it a "Blended"
strategy....IBM calls it “Bluewashing.”
Marketing spin aside, the strategy is "OSS Strip Mining" which is taking open
source software built by a community and "Bluewashing" or "Blending" within
proprietary, closed source offerings; forking/changing the open source code
as needed in the process. The community does not benefit from this, but IBM
and BEA shareholders absolutely benefit.
A perfect example is IBM WebSphere Community Edition. It is based on the
Apache Geronimo open source project and is "Bluewashed" whereby Geronimo is
strip-mined for w... (more)
Born in Paris in 1968, Marc Fleury got his Ph.D in physics from the Ecole
Polytechnique in Paris. He started in Sales at Sun Microsystems France and
then moved to the US where he worked on early java enablement of SAP at
SAPLabs. Marc started the JBoss project in 1999. An ex-Lieutenant in the
paratroopers, Marc holds a degree in Mathematics from the Ecole
Polytechnique, a master in Theor... (more)
Simplicity is the key driving force behind the success of Java. When Dr.
Gosling invented the Java language in 1995, the goal was to make life easier
for software developers. Java's elegant language design, simple API, and
vendor-independence have made it the platform of choice for many developers.
However, as Java evolves to address enterprise needs for scalability and
flexibility, deve... (more)
Enter The JBoss Matrix: "BusinessWeek: JBoss, the Bad Boys of Open Source"
Like the protagonist says at the beginning of Trainspotting, you can…
Choose a career path, choose a cubicle, choose endless code review meetings,
choose an IDE, choose to be good to authority and hope authority will be good
to you, choose a thought leader, choose a license, choose an architecture,
choose a p... (more)
So it has been a long time since I last blogged. Basically the closing
happened and then it seems I went into deep freeze for a little while. I
needed this break. Problem is, it looked like I disappeared from the
industry, pulling my gig and retiring to the beach.
One of the albums I have been listening to over and over this summer is Parts
Unknown III, Subject Detroit by a DJ called DJ B... (more)
Marc Fleury is the chairman, president, and CEO of JBoss. He developed the first release of the open source JBoss Application Server in 1999 while working as an independent consultant and later founded Atlanta-based JBoss in 2001 to provide support services, including training, support, consulting and documentation for JBoss AS. Today, the JBoss product line has expanded beyond JBoss AS, which remains the flagship product in the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS). Marc was previously with Sun Microsystems, where he held engineering and sales positions in the United States and France. Marc is a graduate of France's Ecole Polytechnique, where he also earned a PhD in Physics for experimental work performed as a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds a Master's in Theoretical Physics from the Ecole Nationale Superieure, rue d'Ulm. Marc also served as a lieutenant in the French paratroopers.
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