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 Theoretical Physics from the Ecole Normale ULM and
was a visiting scientist at MIT during his thesis. Marc's research interest
focuses on aspect oriented middleware.
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The folks over at RHAT haven’t wasted time putting me to work. I just
spent two weeks working with investors, touring with Dion Cornett, the VP of
Investors Relations. I don’t know how he does it. I used to see
investors as a private company, mainly due to the impact we had on public
companies at the time, but nothing like what I went through recently --
roughly 60 investors ... (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)
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 "Blue... (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)