1. Professional Open Source
or
The Business of “Free”
Software
Δημήτρης Ανδρεάδης
JBoss AS, Project Lead
JBoss, a division of Red Hat
opencoffee.gr – 00001100 (XII)

2. JB os s & Me
2001 – JB oss User

2003 – JB oss C ontributor

2004 – JB oss E mployee

2006 – JB oss AS Lead


3. JB os s .org – The Project
An O pen S ource Java Application S erver*

Founded by M arc Fleury in 1999
−
− Backed by a community of developers
D evelopers #1 C hoice

Innovative D esign
−
− E asy to Use
LG P L licensed

Freely Use/ istribute/ mbed
D E
−
C ommercial S ervers at $10k - $100k+
−

4. JB os s Today
JB oss.org : 30+

C ommunity P rojects
20+ M illion D ownloads

250,000+ Users

500+ C ontributors

~32% of the World's Java

E nterprise Applications
run on JBoss AS

5. Myth #1
OpenSource
is Free*
*as in Beer

6. JB os s .com – The C ompany
1999 :
EJB-OSS Project
2000 :
Training & Consulting
2001 :
Documentation for sale
2002 :
JBoss Group LLC & Support
2003 :
Expansion with new OSS projects JBoss Network
2004 :
JBoss Inc, Venture Funding,
Enterprise
JEMS
& J2EE 1.4 Certification
2005: : JEMS, JBoss Network, … Partners
Production Support
Tactical
Developer Support
JBoss, Inc.
Consulting
Professional Open Source
Documentation
Developer
Training JBoss Group
Small Consultancy
10/00 6/01 1/02 9/02 9/03 1/05 6/05

7. R ed Hat acquis ition of JB os s (2006)
R ed Hat offered $350M for JB oss Inc.

JB oss formed the M iddleware division of R ed Hat

An O pen S ource stack

for the E nterprise, at a
fraction of the cost

8. Myth #2
OpenSource
is not Mature*
*as in Tomato

9. Mag ic Quadrant for Enterpris e Application
S ervers (S ource: G artner, April 2008)

10. Who is us ing JB os s ?
(tip of iceberg)
Media/
Financial Travel Gov Telecom Insurance
Entertainment

11. The World is
Flat, really

12. dimitris .andreadis @ redhat.com