Articles by Marc Fleury

Enterprise 2.0 Needs Digital Foundation

Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:30:00 EDT

Virtualization of the computing environment is a clear trend in the industry. RHEL5 will provide support for Virtualized Linux. For some Linux system administrators virtualization already means virtualized disk space. Being able to manage your storage independently of your applications or operating system has been the norm in the industry for 15 years. Virtualized partitions are graphically assembled with tools. Configuring RAID support (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks) is as simple as pressing play in these virtualized environments. If you have played with these tools, you know how intuitive and flexible they are. Virtualization also has impacted development models.

Wall Street, Oracle and Game Theory

Sun, 27 Aug 2006 11:45:00 EDT

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 we had on public companies at the time, but nothing like what I went through recently -- roughly 60 investors in three days.

Enter The JBoss Matrix - "We are still here" Says Marc Fleury

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:30:00 EDT

One of the albums I have been listening to over and over this summer is Parts Unknown III, Subject Detroit by a DJ called DJ Bone. It is pure Detroit electronic music in a sense, melody is usually great and soulful, wrapped in some of the hardest beat driven music. If you are new to techno, this isn't exactly the easiest stuff to listen to, but if you like electronic music and want to hear what I believe is one of the best albums of the year, then buy this one. Warning: it is not for the faint of heart, but an album that REALLY grows on you, good luck it is a candy in store and a great techno compilation.

Enterprise Open Source: Keynote by Marc Fleury of JBoss

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:00:00 EDT

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.

JavaOne 2006: JavaOne and JBossWorld Las Vegas Conference Bag

Mon, 22 May 2006 11:00:00 EDT

I'm back from JavaOne. 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 years. It reminded me of the crowds and excitement of the mythical 1999/2000 J1s. Sun claims this year was the largest J1 ever in terms of attendance.

Marc Fleury's Viewpoint: Enterprise Java Made Easy

Sun, 02 Apr 2006 13:00:00 EDT

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 for many developers. However, as Java evolves to address enterprise needs for scalability and flexibility, developer friendliness has taken a back seat. The complex programming model in EJB 2.1 and J2EE 1.4 has hindered Java's adoption, and it's the root cause for many slow-performing and error-prone Java applications.

Marc Fleury's JBoss Blog: "BusinessWeek: JBoss, the Bad Boys of Open Source"

Sun, 02 Apr 2006 12:30:00 EDT

Choose a career path, choose a cubicle, choose endless code review meetings, choose an IDE, choose to be good to authority and hope authority will be good to you, choose a thought leader, choose a license, choose an architecture, choose a paradigm, choose a retirement plan, choose a language, choose your SOA, choose sensitivity training, choose Linux vs. Windows, choose a debugger, choose an MBA, choose the system...

Marc Fleury's JBoss Blog: "Strip Mining" and "Waste Dumping" in Open Source

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:15:00 EST

BEA and IBM, says JBoss dynamo Marc Fluery, have adopted a strategy he calls 'OSS Strip Mining.' While IBM and BEA shareholders benefit, Fleury contends, the open source community does not. 'Taking open source software built by a community and 'Bluewashing' or 'Blending' [it] within proprietary, closed source offerings,' Fleury says, involves forking/changing the open source code as needed in the process. That's the downside.