A popular open source application server that supports Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs). In order to run servlets and JSPs, a servlet container, such as Apache's Tomcat, is used in conjunction with JBoss. In 2006, JBoss, Inc., the company, became a division of Linux provider Red Hat. For more information, visit www.jboss.com.
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- Red Hat JBoss announces Java EE middleware from the cloud
- Open-source middleware over the cloud for building and delivering SOA applications by Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Red Hat settles patent suit
- Red Hat settles patent suitI need clarification[i]Essentially, all that have innovated to create, or that will innovate with, software distributed under Red Hat brands are protected, as are Red Hat customers.[/i]That sounds like a Novell-M$ pact!The only way to be compatible to GPL3 is to buy the patent and release...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- Red Hat settles patent suit
- Red Hat on Tuesday said it has settled a patent infringement lawsuit that covers the company's open source software and any other derivative works. The lawsuit was launched by Firestar Software and DataTern in 2006. Firestar has a platform called EdgeNode that automates distributed processes such as supply chain...
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- Microsoft's Dynamic IT
- Microsoft's Dynamic ITMircrosoft has several issues[i]I guess that Microsoft doesn’t know or doesn’t care that these people already have processes, people and software products in place to do these things.[/i]That's one of many process issues MSFT has to face. Let's take another example. Say I'm building a large...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- How important is Mirth?
- Fred Trotter recently decided to turn his regular talks on open source health computing into a series of blog posts. They are well worth looking at. His review calls Mirth the most important interoperability project out there. Â This despite what he acknowledges are weaknesses in the underlying...
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- SOA Software acquires respository and governance vendor LogicLibrary
- SOA Software, a provider of governance solutions for services-oriented architecture SOA, has acquired LogicLibrary, a leading SOA repository and governance vendor. The acquisition of the Pittsburgh, Pa.-based LogicLibrary by Los Angeles-based SOA Software creates a more comprehensive SOA governance and automation solution, said the companies. The goal...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Novell to Sun: Here's an offer you can't refuse
- Last week, I blogged about the possible future of a unified UNIX GPLv3 operating system "mother distro" comprising the merged source code of the Solaris and Linux kernels (and presumably, the source code of other vendors as well) and related GNU stack with associated tools and applications. ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Oracle architect says there ought to be one Linux distribution: Red Hat
- One Oracle exec said there should be only one Linux distribution -- Red Hat -- and claimed there will be no fragmentation of that code base. In an interview with the Linux Foundation recently, Oracle's chief corporate architect said Oracle Unbreakable Linux is not a product but...
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Open source SOA infrastructure project CXF elevated to full Apache status
- After community incubation and development for nearly two years, the Apache CXF open-source SOA and middleware interoperability framework evolved last week into a full project of the Apache Software Foundation. CXF, with some 60,000 downloads since July 2007, takes its place alongside 60 other Apache projects. The...
- Blog posts 2008-04-20
- Open source tries again with health care
- Last year was the worst of times for open source in health care. The undercapitalized Medsphere had to reorganize after tossing its founders for daring to treat their open source promises seriously. Misys tossed some code over the side and called it an open source strategy. ...
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Can Tolven give Medsphere the lift it needs?
- Medsphere's efforts to revolutionize hospital computing with an open source code base (derived from the VA's VistA system) got a big boost at HIMSS with news it would partner with Tolven Inc. The reason is only now becoming apparent. Tolven's founders, most of them former Oracle executives, have...
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Traditional software licensing: Why you pay more and a look at your options
- It's hard to believe that some of the most profitable software companies in the world--Oracle, Microsoft and SAP--are sitting on a licensing model that is untenable in the long run and will increasingly irk customers. But there may be a revolution in the cards that could tip the balance of...
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- Red Hat: JBoss picks up steam, but were the earnings that great?
- Red Hat: JBoss picks up steam, but were the earnings that great?What's your point?I'm trying to understand what point you're making about Red Hat's performance. Are you saying it's good, bad, optimistic, pessimistic?Anyway, Steven J Vaughn-Nichols' point about Red Hat making money, and continuing to grow it's revenue and...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-28
- Red Hat: JBoss picks up steam, but were the earnings that great?
- Red Hat reported strong fourth quarter results and indicated that it was managing through economic adversity well. More importantly, Red Hat indicated that its JBoss middleware business may be gaining at the expense of Oracle. The Red Hat conference call Thursday relative to Oracle's was an interesting...
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- Hot new open source ISVs, projects make the grade at OSBC
- Six hot open source startups and projects got notice at the Open Source Business Conference this week. Not surprisingly, many of them are in software categories deemed most vulnerable to open source disruption, including collaboration and conferencing, social publishing, sales automation, application deployment and developer tools....
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- Open source and the shrinking waterhole
- Open source and the shrinking waterhole?????I'm sorry dude, but you lost me. What on Earth are you talking about? I might be dumb, it might be the fact that English is my third language, or some other reason. But I didn't understand the point of your article.This is a tech...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-27
- Red Hat CEO: We haven't done a good enough job as an industry leader, or project leader
- Red Hat CEO: We haven't done a good enough job as an industry leader, or project leaderUmmm"We have to do a better job of involving the community,even if we own the operating system 100 percnt lock stock and barrel"That needs a serious rethink. Make money from support and forget the...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-25
- Wellness Product Company Switches From Linux to Windows Server to Support Growth
- Zone Labs, known for its Evidence Based Wellness products, had an unsupported IT mix of Linux, Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, and Java 2 Enterprise Edition, with financial data in QuickBooks. With no automated inventory control, no disaster recovery mechanism, and only limited security capabilities, the environment was unable to support significant...
- Case studies 2008-03-25
- Could Yahoo's 'openness' be another anti-Microsoft poison pill?
- Even though Microsoft and Yahoo allegedly are at the bargaining table, I can't help but wonder what Yahoo is doing behind the scenes to minimize Microsoft's impact when and if it acquires Yahoo. We already know that Yahoo CEO Yang created golden parachutes for Yahoo employees (along...
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- Red Hat acquires consultants to push JBoss
- Red Hat acquires consultants to push JBossUsual mistakeRed Hat bought out JBoss and then tried to sell it like linux and ignored the formula that JBoss had used in the past. Unnessesary mistake but there you have it. Oh, all the JBoss people left with their skills and enthusiasim too....
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
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