I work for Red Hat, where I lead JBoss technical direction and research/development. Prior to this I was SOA Technical Development Manager and Director of Standards. I was Chief Architect and co-founder at Arjuna Technologies, an HP spin-off (where I was a Distinguished Engineer). I've been working in the area of reliable distributed systems since the mid-80's. My PhD was on fault-tolerant distributed systems, replication and transactions. I'm also a Professor at Newcastle University and Lyon.
Thanks Mark and congratulations on the job, you certainly "didn't screw up", au contraire.
After the RHT acquisition (which wasn't completely a breeze...) the various project teams shielded from the acquisition wave by FOCUSING on their projects, an not necessarily on the overall JBoss story/platforms. That led to great project innovation but I think the overall platform somehow suffered from this hyper-focus. Since you took over, you and the team have been able to really bring a new wave of energy to the platforms (as an aggregation of all of those great smaller projects). This is IMO what leads to the pretty amazing work going on with JBoss AS 7.0.
Thanks Mark and congratulations on the job, you certainly "didn't screw up", au contraire.
ReplyDeleteAfter the RHT acquisition (which wasn't completely a breeze...) the various project teams shielded from the acquisition wave by FOCUSING on their projects, an not necessarily on the overall JBoss story/platforms. That led to great project innovation but I think the overall platform somehow suffered from this hyper-focus. Since you took over, you and the team have been able to really bring a new wave of energy to the platforms (as an aggregation of all of those great smaller projects). This is IMO what leads to the pretty amazing work going on with JBoss AS 7.0.
So that's great :) Congratulations
Onward,
Sacha
Thanks again Sacha, and you're continuing to do a great job with CloudBees!!
ReplyDelete