Marc Fleury

Enter the JBoss Matrix I will join the fray with this attempt to give a crisper product definition to Enterprise 2.0, mapping to Red Hat and JBoss products, and introducing the concept of the "Digital Foundation." Digital Foundation == (Virtualization + SOA + Web2.0)^OSS. VIRTUA... (more)

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 ... (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 alb... (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-Lieu... (more)

I'm back from Java One. 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 ye... (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 f... (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 hop... (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 sp... (more)