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-source middleware software
key people = Marc Fleury, founder.
products = JBoss AS

JBoss is a division of Red Hat. It specializes in open-source middleware 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 a C corporation headquartered in Atlanta, 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 rivals BEA Systems and IBM in the middleware market. On April 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, including JBoss AS, Hibernate, Tomcat, JBoss ESB, jBPM, JBoss Rules (formerly Drools), JBoss Cache, JGroups, JBoss Portal, JBoss Seam, JBoss RichFaces, JBoss Transactions, and JBoss 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 - a web server based on Apache Tomcat, supports Java (JSP, servlet), .Net (ASP.NET), CGI, and php 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 Eclipse

References

External links

*http://www.jboss.com/products/index