JBoss and Microsoft - Competitive Interop

re: JBoss and Microsoft - Competitive Interop

Klaus H. Probst — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 19:55:16 GMT

Hi Jason -

This is interesting news, but I have to ask: why JBoss? Why not IBM or some other commercial vendor with a J2EE product? Don't Websphere folks deploy on Windows as well?

I hate to say it but Fleury doesn't have the most enjoyable class-A personality in the open source world. Just ask the ServerSide folks =)

Anyway, just wondering.

re: JBoss and Microsoft - Competitive Interop

jasonmatusow — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:52:42 GMT

Klaus -

JBoss has 50% of their implementations on Windows and that was a strong catalyst for this conversation. We work with IBM on a number of fronts and we work with other major vendors who are competitive as well (e.g. Oracle). This is not the end of these types of conversations with other vendors. I can put some other interesting company names in with this style of engagement. I think we have an opportunity to work with many vendors on interop.

- Jason

50% is the trigger?

Simon Phipps — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 03:25:22 GMT

> 50% of JBoss customers deploy on Windows – 50%. Sounds like
> something we should be helping them be successful at. The incentive
> for us is to have a shared customer base with JBoss that is happy
> with the solution they have chosen to deploy.

Hey Jason - I'm pretty sure more than 50% of the people downloading OpenOffice.org are using it on Windows. Does this mean you'd like to work to make that more successful too?

:-)

re: JBoss and Microsoft - Competitive Interop

jasonmatusow — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:44:07 GMT

Simon - good to hear from you. The answer from the Windows perspective is yes. We want to see customers happy with their choice of OS. Unfortunately, as you are very aware, the complex nature of multiple product offerings makes this a non-linear decision.

There are many ways in which we help projects like OpenOffice. There are endless SDKs, documentation, online help mechanism, MSDN resources etc. that the OpenOffice team may consume like any other development team. All of these are meant to help application developers be more successful on Windows. We do not qualify who can access these resources (other than the MSDN membership which is fee based - but that is a small number and thus a very small barrier for most dev teams of any size.)

Jason

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