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"For JBoss, 2004 was a year of building, focus and execution, and the
results speak for themselves. Make no doubt about it, Professional Open Source
has arrived as a safe choice for the enterprise," said Web Services Edge 2005
keynote panelist Marc Fleury, chairman and CEO of JBoss, Inc., as JBoss last
week announced its fourth quarter results for 2004, closing out the company's
most successful year to date.
Highlights include the introduction of enhanced JBoss Professional Support
Services to meet the company's rapidly growing customer base and the launch of
the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS), an expanding stack of
plug-and-play open source software that delivers greater technology choice and
flexibility to the end user.
With an eye on corporate growth, JBoss opened a development office in Austin,
Texas and continued to strengthen its management team.
In addition, this quarter saw JBoss bolster its mindshare and momentum in the
Java community. First, the company was elected by program members of the Java
Community Process (JCPSM) to the Executive Committee (EC) for the
Standard/Enterprise Edition (SE/EE). As a voting member, JBoss will help guide
the evolution of Java technologies. Second, the JBoss Application Server is now
the most widely deployed Java application platform. A recent survey of IT
managers found that nearly 35% use JBoss AS, a gain of 26% from last year. In
contrast, fewer respondents were using proprietary application servers, with
declines across the board for IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic and Oracle app
servers.
"JBoss has a strong and experienced management team in place, a talented
development team drawn from around the world and a profitable, disruptive
business model challenging traditional software revenue lifecycles at every
turn. In 2005, we expect JBoss Professional Open Source to continue gaining
converts in every industry and our JEMS products to gain and increase market
share in the IT infrastructure of every enterprise," Fleury said.
With the launch of JEMS, an expanding open source middleware stack that
offers end users an alternative to what JBoss describes as "today's monolithic,
proprietary platforms," JBoss tapped former Bluestone and HP Middleware veteran
Shaun Connolly for vice president of product management. Connolly has more than
12 years of experience leading product management, development and integration
teams. In this position, Connolly spearheads product strategy and management of
JEMS and related technologies.
For the fourth quarter, JBoss outperformed its growth goals and remained
cash-flow positive.
A record number of new customers bought professional support, training or
consulting services, including AutoTrader.com, Avaki, Bond International
Software, Bridges Transition, Carnegie Mellon University, Delta Com Srl., eXerp
(formerly ProCard ApS), Five9 Inc., GEDI SA, George Little Management, Honda
Motor Company Europe (UK), Intime Technologies, ITG SSI, Justsystem Corporation,
Komunik Corporation, LowerMyBills.com, Ongame E-solutions AB, Pitagora S.p.A.,
Polycom, Priceline.com, Rackspace Managed Hosting, RightSize Business Systems,
TimesTen, Tripod Technologies and Unity Systems.
The JBoss Partner Network continues to expand with the addition of new
partners, including a new premier JBoss Authorized Server Partner (JASP),
SoftPro Systems, an IT specialist based in Hyderabad, India. Other new partners
include Choreology, Proservia and Tier 2 Consulting.
In a statement the company declared:
"Building on its track record of delivering technology ahead of the industry,
JBoss continued to bring new innovations to the market with its expanding
federation of open source projects. Key innovations in this quarter include
JBoss AOP, the first Java implementation of aspectoriented design, integrated
with JBoss Eclipse IDE; an EJB 3.0 Preview that greatly reduces development
complexity and simplifies EJB so they resemble plain old Java objects (POJOs);
and the JBoss MicroContainer, a blending of the JBoss Microkernel and JBoss AOP,
which will be the foundation of the company?s forthcoming fifth-generation
application server."
With significant resource support and contributions from JBoss, the Apache
Jakarta Tomcat project debuted its latest release, Tomcat 5.5.4, focused on
performance enhancements. To further enhance Tomcat as an enterprise solution
for its customers, JBoss federated the mod_jk Web Server Connector project,
which integrates Tomcat with the Apache Web Server and Microsoft IIS. Mladen
Turk, key Apache Jakarta contributor, joined JBoss as a full-time developer.
Turk will work closely with the Tomcat development team at JBoss, led by Tomcat
contributor Remy Maucherat, to improve integration of the popular JSP/servlet
engine and the Apache Web Server.
For more information: http://jboss.com/products/index.
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