Hello folks, As usual I will take the time to pitch you our new trainings and keep you update with the latest news about jboss.
First let's take care of the business. TRAININGS xxxxxxxxx ATLANTA BOOTCAMP: Atlanta Boot Camp is fast approaching: Aug 16-17 in Atlanta at the Swissotel. This is a fast paced, and quite comprehensive overview of JBoss taught by the me, Scott, Bill and other US core developers. Come see the core in action in the famous "Atlanta Sessions". SYS-ADMIN: System Administration is in New York, Aug. 11-12. It is designed specially for those who administer JBoss and want to learn administration as they go to production. ADVANCED JBOSS Lastly, advanced JBoss training in Washington DC, Aug. 11-14. Learn all about the intricacies of the most downloaded app server and how to maximize your apps. IT IS ALMOST SOLD OUT SO HURRY. Contact Stephen Hobbs at 404-467-8555 ext 205, [EMAIL PROTECTED] or go to our web site for more information about training. http://www.jbossgroup.com/index.html?module=html&op=userdisplay&id=servi ces/training/index for the training schedule and registration. SERVICES xxxxxxxx Our recently announced Production Support, in addition to our Developer's support has been a best seller. Since our recent launch of the JBoss production support contract we have signed many new support customers (dev and prod) in the month of july. Some of the names are Dun and Bradstreet, Siemens, Compuware, Glaxo, Sagamore Hill Capital, a well know NYC financial firm under NDA and many more. Going to JBoss is almost routine for many IT depts. We are glad to support these fine companies in their professional usage of JBoss and we hope you are next. In addition, Unify and Librados have joined our software partner program, Unify ships fast development tools for JBoss and Librados produces a high end integration platform. Apple has given us great press coverage with their integration of JBoss in Panther (OSX) NEWS Xxxx JBoss J2EE certification effort. JBoss is increasingly used in production and as you all move to production we realize that certification brand becomes an important check mark. We have the financials to take it on, so we are. So many people have asked us where that was at and the press is having a field day with the story. It seems everyone likes drama. So there is no drama at least not anymore on our side. For all intents and purposes, JBoss has agreed to ALL the conditions imposed by SUN. It includes what for us is a hefty sum of money. They didn't give us a break, they didn't give us any break, which is kind of normal if you think about it as there are many parties involved and SUN must treat all licensees the same. In short the ball is in SUN's court and we are looking forward to inking the contract. Apache J2EE effort. First a bit of history. I offered EJBoss when it was 4 month old to Apache. The guys at Jakarta vote OK unanimously and their vote was overridden by Brian Behlendorf. The reason from behlendorf was that they 'were not the dust bin of open source projects'. I heard the Apache crowd got offended for me calling them "a bunch of fat ladies drinking tea" at a later date when they were running around telling us how to run our project. We had reports that this was the non-official reason for this "challenge". Challenge accepted. More seriously as we overtake them in corporate penetration and business model, I guess they are finally looking beyond the HTTPD C codebase and imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. We are the real thing, all we have so far is talk and announcement, announcements are a dime a dozen. Apache code on this project has yet to be released and then production reached and then maturity bla bla bla. I have little comment on the project except to say that JBOSS IS NOT A PART OF IT. In a misleading announcement Apache chairman's Greg Stein implied JBoss was participating and that JBOSS CODE WAS PART OF THE PROJECT. No current JBoss developers are participating in the Apache J2EE project and since JBoss is LGPL only full copyright holders can offer JBoss code under other licenses. Bottom line? JBoss can't be forked by apache. As our customers know, we are a business, a serious one and we seriously believe in and defend "professional open source". That includes legal protection of IP. Make no mistakes, JBoss will AGGRESIVELY defend its copyright and LGPL license. Expanded Tomcat Support. We hired Remy Maucherat the lead developer of Tomcat 5 on Monday and he will be part of our support organization in Europe. Remy was a SUN employee where he lead the TC4 development and is now on staff with JBoss Group Europe, reporting to Sacha Labourey and developing TC5 while on our watch. Moving forward Tomcat will be our default container as the market demands that support from JBoss Group. We are in a position to offer the best support for Tomcat enterprise users out there and are thrilled to continue providing a way to do "professional open source" for the most talented Open Source folks in our industry. Remy is based out of Toulouse France. And with that, I am flying back from Florida, fly out tomorrow to NYC where I talk to financial analysts at a CIBC conference and then out to California, meeting with partners, customers and potential investors for 2 days before coming back home to Atlanta. Life on the road. Until next time, PLgC Marcf xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Marc Fleury, Ph.D Founder JBoss Group, LLC xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. 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