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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)

Enterprise Open Source: Keynote by Marc Fleury of JBoss

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)

Marc Fleury's Viewpoint: Enterprise Java Made Easy

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)

Marc Fleury's JBoss Blog: "BusinessWeek: JBoss, the Bad Boys of Open Source"

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)

Enter The JBoss Matrix - "We are still here" Says Marc Fleury

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)