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.
Virtualization of the computing environment is a clear trend in the industry. RHEL5 will provide support for Virtualized Linux. For some Linux system administrators virtualization already means virtualized disk space. Being able to manage your storage independently of your applications...
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I'm back from JavaOne. It was truly a GREAT conference. The conference was packed, there were lines for the restrooms like in 1999. The energy at the conference was high, very high. The showfloor was PACKED! People were rubbing shoulders and what a stark contrast to the other years. It...
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 man...
BEA and IBM, says JBoss dynamo Marc Fluery, have adopted a strategy he calls 'OSS Strip Mining.' While IBM and BEA shareholders benefit, Fleury contends, the open source community does not. 'Taking open source software built by a community and 'Bluewashing' or 'Blending' [it] within pr...
