Rich Sharples' Blog
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Fear Uncertainty and Cluelessness
Jun 28, 2012 3:35 PM, by sharps
I’m generally impressed with the quality of our competitors FUD and anti-JBoss marketing. Our competitors may not be super-smart but they generally make up for it in raw man-power (or girl power) and ... -
The death of bloated, heavyweight, monolothic enterprise Java …
May 7, 2012 2:02 PM, by sharps
… and the rise of the lightweight, agile, dynamic, modular Enterprise Java. Java EE has long had the perception of being slow, bloated and monolithic. While the Java EE specification doesn’t prescribe... -
JBoss Data Grid – Making Big Data Work
Apr 13, 2012 2:46 PM, by sharps
This week Red Hat extended the Early Access program for JBoss Data Grid with the availability of the BETA – available to existing customer and future customers. Traditional (typically relational) s... -
Red Hat is lookingfor some awesome Product Maagers
Apr 10, 2012 3:05 PM, by sharps
Looking for a new challenge in a fast growing business ? Familiar with Java, JBoss and Open Source ? Able to kick competitor butt and have fun ? Product Manager, JBoss User Experience (UXP) Mobile Pla... -
Red Hat is looking for some awesome Product Managers
Apr 10, 2012 3:05 PM, by sharps
Looking for a new challenge in a fast growing business ? Familiar with Java, JBoss and Open Source ? Able to kick competitor butt and have fun ? Product Manager, JBoss User Experience (UXP) Mobile Pla... -
JBoss EAP 6 BETA Q&A
Mar 16, 2012 3:24 PM, by sharps
Here follows answers to the the majority of the questions we had during the BETA webinars last week. I’ll add the remaining answers in he next few days. There were lots of questions so I’ve grouped th... -
JBoss EAP 6 BETA Webinar
Mar 9, 2012 2:53 PM, by sharps
Join me next Wednesday 3/14 – I’ll be talking about how to get involved in the JBoss EAP 6 BETA program. World-wide-friendly times : Wednesday, March 14, 2012 | 14:00 UTC / 9am (New York) / 2pm (Paris... -
With all the enthusiasm of cleaning up a dog turd …
Aug 26, 2011 8:51 PM, by sharps
… Heroku finally got around to supporting Java. But they couldn’t do it without first piling on some hate. Why then, if Java is such a miserable platform to develop on would Heroku bother ? Here are a... -
Rethinking Enterprise Java
Jul 21, 2011 12:55 PM, by sharps
JBoss AS 7 has been out for a week or so – probably not enough time for opinions to be formed but the feedback I’ve seen so far has been overwhelmingly positive. But that isn’t the subject of this pos... -
Not all free advice is good advice
Jul 21, 2011 12:52 PM, by sharps
Mike Gualtieri at Forrester has a rather sensationalist post with a rather sensationalist title “Stop Wasting Money On WebLogic, WebSphere, And JBoss Application Servers”. I agree with some of what Mi...