JBoss Founder Interview

peterdaly writes "The JBoss website has an interview with Marc Fleury, the JBoss founder regarding his vision. In case you have been living under a rock, JBoss is an Open Source Java Application Server (J2EE) which has been picking up tons of steam recently, especially with the recent introduction of features like clustering. Competing products from companies like IBM (WebSphere) and BEA (WebLogic) go for tens of thousands of dollars, which is interesting since JBoss is starting to have features the big boys don't. JBoss had 72,000 downloads in October. This is a project to watch."

Comments

What exactly is a Java application server?

[svara]

I'm not really following JAVA as I'm more interested in "traditional" programming languages - but this sounds interesting? What's a Java application server? And it has clustering? So it's some kind of physical server computer running Java apps?

Ohh my Hemos..

[Count]

"..picking up steam"

..Yeah It is also a real boost for the Open Source movemnet. This project has been brewing and is sure to mug the competition.

heheh

Evangelist? Say it ain't so!

[tswinzig]

was working at SUN on Java since the early days, mostly as an evangelist in the beginning.

After reading his responses, you can really tell he had a job as an evangelist. For you Quake/id fans out there, it's like Paul Steed started coding in Java!

hmmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn.

I guess I must live under a rock. I thought JBoss was some "urban" clothing conglomerate, formed when J. Crew and Hugo Boss merged to oust Tommy in the Phat Ghetto Style Stankfinga razmadaza hootchie combo platta market.

Y'knowumsay'n? Yomesain?

I love this quote...

[TFloore]

Odds are the product with the greatest market penetration will always have the greatest stability.

(From the last paragraph of question 3.)

Microsoft would be the exception that proves the rule?

I tried to resist saying that, really I did...