:SearchWebServices: JBoss' Marc Fleury on Open Source in 2006, Part 1
SearchWebServices: JBoss' Marc Fleury on Open Source in 2006, Part 1 Jan 4, 2006, 11 :30 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (2966 reads) (Other stories by Michael Meehan)
"Open source seemed to become chic in 2005. What does JBoss need to do to stay in front of an ever-growing pack?
"Marc Fleury: People credit MySQL and JBoss back in 2004 for reigniting an open source bubble of investment. That's definitely been covered to death this year as you've picked up. It's true that it's [open source is] so hot, right. As far as staying in front of the pack, we need to continue innovating. Being the leader in open [source] is a very entrenched position in the sense that the differentiators once your software is free are about the quality of support and your capacity to scale up innovation. Today, JBoss writes a lot of the key specifications inside of the Java world, the EJB 3.0 [specification] or a new innovation like Seam, or some of the innovation we're coming to market with in January that comes from our collaboration with Microsoft. We are accelerating the pace of innovation in open source with open standards..."
