The Second day started with an early breakfast. Despite the early time and people still being jetlagged, the conference hall was packed full of people eager to see the top executives. After all, this was the first time the JBoss and RedHat were organizing a major event after the corporate fusion. The opening music and video-installation welcomed Mark Fleury, now having title Senor Vice President of RedHat and General Manager of the JBoss Division, to the stage and as an energetic performer he had no problem of keeping the people awake.
One of the things Mr Fleury discussed was the recent evolvement in the industry that has been taking place after the RH and JBoss fusion. After a long static situation in the application server market, which he described similar to “Nash equilibrium”, the industry is moving. As he said currently “Larry is moving, Microsoft is moving and everybody is moving” and the time will show, which of the players have the strongest ecosystem to survive.
To mention about interesting speaks from the sponsors, Mr. Steve Rawsthorn from Unisys had a good discussion with Mr. Fleury. The discussion point out for example how all airports in US are running Unisys and how a fairly large share of credit card transactions are globally processed by the company’s servers even they may quite invisible on the streets. The presentation deserves a mention, as it was a talk that did the marketing very well yet managed to avoid being boring at all. For example, no slides at all.
Then an announcement was made, where Bull company announced its status as a partner of JBoss. The opening session lasted nice hour and quarter and included a good amount of nice stage humor as well as a good overview on the whereabouts of major open source vendors close to JBoss.
And of course something that should not be forgotten, someone promised to the crowd, as often seen in JBoss forums that “we love you”, what a warm feeling that gives! How could we blog anything bad about so nice people:)
The sessions continued with more advanced subjects than yesterday. Burr Sutter gave two presentations targeted for developers about SOA. On afternoon the SOA track continued by Thomas Diesler who talked about JBoss web services stack present at JBoss AS 5.0. The new application server version is turning beta very soon, and many presentations were giving insight of the new features. For example, Anil Saldhana presented J2EE security and new JBoss Security components on forthcoming beta AS. Anil also presented JBoss Federated SSO framework with Sonil Shah. Overall, too many sessions at the same time and unfortunately you cannot attend them all.
We are off to cocktail reception which starts right now. And the evening continues at e-Werk where JBoss World Party is held.
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