2008 06 OpenCoffee Xii - Athens - JBoss

Slide 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)

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

Slide 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+ −

Slide 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

Slide 5: Myth #1 OpenSource is Free* *as in Beer

Slide 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

Slide 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

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

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

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

Slide 11: The World is Flat, really

Slide 12: dimitris .andreadis @ redhat.com