$35 Mil. for 14,000 desktops comes to $2,500 per desktop. If it is only for software upgrades, even if you include training costs, it seems pretty high. Unless they are rewriting all of the Win32 apps to work on Linux, in which case it might not be enough (175 apps to port).
From their website:
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Dain Sundstrom
Dain is the author of CMP/JBoss, an implementation of the CMP 2.0 specification for JBoss 3, and is the leading the JBoss 4 persistence team. Dain has 7 years of experience in enterprise computing working with companies such as United Health Care, McKesson, Corporate Express, MCI and McDonalds.
David Jencks
David is the author of the distributed transaction manager and the JCA subsystem for JBoss, as well the author of the JMX tags for XDoclet. David has written JCA adapters for the Firebird database and for clients such as FMG, and has worked with webMethods on the integration of JBoss into the webMethods Integration Platform.
Greg Wilkins
Greg developed the Jetty http server and servlet container, which is the default web container in the JBoss server. Greg has 18 years of experience in enterprise computing working with companies such as Cisco, Telstra and the London Clearing House and he sits on the experts panel for the java servlets specifcation.
James Strachan
James is a co-founder of the Jelly, dom4j, jaxen and saxpath projects. He is also a member of the Apache Jakarta Project Management Committee, and sits on several Java Specification committees. James has over 15 years of enterprise computing experience working with companies such as SpiritSoft, PaceMetrics, Rabobank, CSFB, NEON, Nomura Research Institute and JP Morgan.
Jeremy Boynes
Jeremy is a member of the JBoss 4 Persistence Team, and maintainer of CMP/JBoss. Jeremy has over 20 years of enterprise computing experience working with companies ranging from the Fortune 100 to Silicon Valley startups including BT, Sequent Computer Systems, Cisco and Bravanta.
Jules Gosnell
Jules spearheaded the integration of Jetty into JBoss in November of 2000 and has since been deeply involved in both projects. Jules has 12 years of experience in enterprise computing ranging from Toshiba's Research and Developement Center in Tokyo to the London Financial sector, including clients such as Nomura, Credit Suisse, UBS Warburg, and major eCommerce players such as LastMinute.com.
Remigio Chirino
Remigio is the principle developer of JMS/JBoss, and developed the first iteration of the Aspect based infrastructure for JBoss 4.0. Remigio has expertise in designing, building and deploying enterprise messaging systems."
They look pretty significant in my view, but maybe its just me. CMP, Dist. XA , JMS, Jetty all seem kinda important, especially in the corporate environment.
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$35 Mil. for 14,000 desktops comes to $2,500 per desktop. If it is only for software upgrades, even if you include training costs, it seems pretty high. Unless they are rewriting all of the Win32 apps to work on Linux, in which case it might not be enough (175 apps to port).
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Oracle had this a long time ago. They used to call it the IFS(Internet File System). Never took of, maybe because it was before it's time.
From their website:
" Dain Sundstrom
Dain is the author of CMP/JBoss, an implementation of the CMP 2.0 specification for JBoss 3, and is the leading the JBoss 4 persistence team. Dain has 7 years of experience in enterprise computing working with companies such as United Health Care, McKesson, Corporate Express, MCI and McDonalds.
David Jencks
David is the author of the distributed transaction manager and the JCA subsystem for JBoss, as well the author of the JMX tags for XDoclet. David has written JCA adapters for the Firebird database and for clients such as FMG, and has worked with webMethods on the integration of JBoss into the webMethods Integration Platform.
Greg Wilkins
Greg developed the Jetty http server and servlet container, which is the default web container in the JBoss server. Greg has 18 years of experience in enterprise computing working with companies such as Cisco, Telstra and the London Clearing House and he sits on the experts panel for the java servlets specifcation.
James Strachan
James is a co-founder of the Jelly, dom4j, jaxen and saxpath projects. He is also a member of the Apache Jakarta Project Management Committee, and sits on several Java Specification committees. James has over 15 years of enterprise computing experience working with companies such as SpiritSoft, PaceMetrics, Rabobank, CSFB, NEON, Nomura Research Institute and JP Morgan.
Jeremy Boynes
Jeremy is a member of the JBoss 4 Persistence Team, and maintainer of CMP/JBoss. Jeremy has over 20 years of enterprise computing experience working with companies ranging from the Fortune 100 to Silicon Valley startups including BT, Sequent Computer Systems, Cisco and Bravanta.
Jules Gosnell
Jules spearheaded the integration of Jetty into JBoss in November of 2000 and has since been deeply involved in both projects. Jules has 12 years of experience in enterprise computing ranging from Toshiba's Research and Developement Center in Tokyo to the London Financial sector, including clients such as Nomura, Credit Suisse, UBS Warburg, and major eCommerce players such as LastMinute.com.
Remigio Chirino
Remigio is the principle developer of JMS/JBoss, and developed the first iteration of the Aspect based infrastructure for JBoss 4.0. Remigio has expertise in designing, building and deploying enterprise messaging systems."
They look pretty significant in my view, but maybe its just me. CMP, Dist. XA , JMS, Jetty all seem kinda important, especially in the corporate environment.