BusinessWeek: JBoss vs IBM Spat--An Opening for Microsoft
Sep 28, 2005, 00:15 (5 Talkback[s])
"JBoss CEO Marc Fleury is spittin' mad these days. His target:
IBM. For five years, Fleury has seen his company grow rapidly by
selling support and other services around JBoss open-source
application server software. This is the market pioneered by BEA
Systems and now led by IBM--software for powering Web sites and
integrating enterprise applications with one another. By offering
basic application-server capabilities at a very low price, JBoss
disrupted the commercial market, putting downward pressure on
prices. Now IBM is giving him a taste of his own medicine. No
wonder he's mad. And no wonder he's now cozying up to
Microsoft..."
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