- JBoss (company)
Infobox Defunct Company
company name = JBoss, Inc.
company
slogan =
fate = merged
successor =Red Hat
foundation = 2004
defunct = April 2006
location =Atlanta, GA
industry = open-sourcemiddleware software
key people =Marc Fleury , founder.
products =JBoss AS JBoss is a division of
Red Hat . It specializes in open-sourcemiddleware software.The company profits from a service-based business model. JBoss pioneered the Professional Open Source business modelFact|date=July 2008 where the core developers of projects make a living and offer their services. The project, as an Open Source project, is developed and supported by a network of programmers.
History
Marc Fleury started the JBoss project in 1999 in order to advance his middleware research interests. JBoss Group, LLC was incorporated in 2001 in Atlanta, Georgia. JBoss became a corporation under the name JBoss, Inc. in 2004. It was aC corporation headquartered inAtlanta, GA which owned the copyright and trademarks associated with JBoss.In early 2006,
Oracle Corporation , a major distributor of database software, had been looking to buy JBoss Inc. for an estimated $400 million. The acquisition would have enabled Oracle to compete with rivalsBEA Systems and IBM in themiddleware market. OnApril 10 2006 , however,Red Hat announced that they were buying JBoss for $420 million. [cite news |title=Red Hat Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire JBoss |url=http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2006/jboss.html |publisher=Red Hat |date=2006-04-10 |accessdate=2007-03-22 |quote=Open source leaders agree to join to drive down the cost of developing and deploying web-enabled applications ] Red Hat and JBoss have since completed the acquisition. [cite news |title=Red Hat Completes Acquisition of JBoss |url=http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2006/jboss final.html |publisher=Red Hat |date=2006-06-05 |accessdate=2007-03-22 |quote=Open source leader enables a low-cost path to service-oriented architectures ]Products
JBoss Inc. provides a set of
Java EE projects, includingJBoss AS , Hibernate, Tomcat,JBoss ESB ,jBPM ,JBoss Rules (formerlyDrools ), JBoss Cache,JGroups , JBoss Portal,JBoss Seam ,JBoss RichFaces , JBoss Transactions, andJBoss Messaging - all marketed under the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS) brand.Its product list, known as the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS) includes:
*JBoss application server - the JBoss application server
*JBoss Messaging - a message queuing system
*JBoss Web Server - aweb server based onApache Tomcat , supports Java (JSP,servlet ), .Net (ASP.NET ), CGI, andphp dynamic content technology. [http://labs.jboss.com/portal/jbossweb/?prjlist=false]
* [http://www.jboss.com/products/jbosside JBoss Plugin for Eclipse IDE]
* [http://www.jboss.com/products/jbossportal JBoss Portal]
* [http://www.jboss.com/products/devstudio JBoss Developer Studio] A non-free bundle of JBoss plugins and Eclipse
* [http://labs.jboss.com/tools/ JBoss Tools] Free and open source JBoss plugins for EclipseReferences
External links
*http://www.jboss.com/products/index
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