Folks, 


This email list is 50,000 strong and growing.  It seems jboss-news is
becoming a small mass communication tool.  I am thinking about opening the
list.  NOT FOR SPAM, don't worry, we won't let you down, but opening it for
your selected posts, kind of what radio talk-show hosts do on their show.
"HELLO LISTENER, WHAT IS YOUR POINT?". So you could send a mail and I would
moderate questions and answers and points.  Do you want to talk about what
is needed, what you want, how you see JBoss growing, etc etc, post to
jboss-news and I will read the posts see if we can work something out. 

Ok, onto the news, November was another great month for JBoss.  Record
sales.  With Europe coming online sales wise, we beat our own numbers and
the company is solid.  Even with the check we are paying to SUN we are
financially solid.  

We have announced quite a few things this month. And I will get into it. 

TRAININGS:
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But first quickly, let's take care of training business.  NEXT WEEK (Dec 8-
11) we are in ROME, Sacha and myself for Advanced training.  Don't miss out,
AOP everywhere and where we are going.  There are some spots left so hurry
up.   For the US crew, we will give a training in ATL on Jan 12-15 and
London Jan 19-22.  That is for the advanced training. Admin denver SOLD OUT,
and the next training is in EU in Zurich on Jan 15-16. More information is
available at www.jboss.org. BTW we secured the www.jboss.com URL so that is
available as well.

J2EE CERTIFICATION:
===================
So we finally reached an agreement with SUN on the certification. It costs
us a pretty penny but it is important to many of you and many of our
partners.  We have licensed the J2EE 1.4 TCK.  That's it it is the end of a
long feud with SUN and I hope we can finally work together for the good of
Java and our industry at large.

More importantly, we formed a consortium of partners to achieve
certification.  Borland, IONA, SchlumbergerSema, Sonic, UNISYS, WebMethods
are joining us to help certify JBoss.  It shows wide and deep industry
commitment to JBoss.  JBoss is for real and the industry is backing us. 

INDEMNIFICATION:
================
We announced indemnification with our production support contracts.  What
this means is that just like any other software company, JBoss will insure
you against IP claims on its codebase. In the wake of the SCO/IBM scandal,
it is the minimum that we could do to make Professional Open Source safe.
This is the level of insurance that you get from everyone else and JBoss is
open source you can trust.  This is availble to our production support
customers only.  You can read more at www.jboss.com. 

PARTNERS:
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We signed 7 new partners this month, with most of them in the JASP program.
The JBoss Authorized Service Partners program offers the possibility for
SI's and ISVs to officially resell our support.  See www.jboss.com on how to
become a JASP in your region, it is early in the game.  Most partners are
signing up in EUROPE (we will update you on that separately) and will
increase our reach. IONA signed as a JASP ISV platinum and is the first app
server vendor to officially offer JBoss support to its existing base. If you
are a IONA customer, you can work through existing channels to buy your
JBoss support. JBoss Group is doing the 3rd line so you retain the experts. 

We also signed JamCracker as a marketing partner, they deliver a complete
identity management platform on JBoss. 

PRODUCTS:
=========

JBossIDE, a new version of our eclipse integration has been released, more
details on the website.  

TRUE-CACHE by JBoss(tm), we are about to release a killer product, just a
heads up.  I saw it work in LA. We do fine-grained automated replication of
state.  Powerful stuff that will put you in control of your data topologies.
You will see it is something ELSE and I believe this product by itself has
the capacity to change the way we architect solutions on JBoss and J2EE in
general.  

Finally the forums are ready for JBoss so NUKES on JBOSS will come out
probably by the end of the year just in time for the hollidays.  You will
see that come online during the month of DEC so you will be able to test
drive the technology at www.jboss.org. 

Apart from that I am leaving this afternoon for a 2 week trip. Boston,
Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Paris, Rome, Boston... Phew... There is
a rumor that someone that looks like me and talks like me will show up at
the JavaPolis conference :)  but the local police is on high alert to make
sure that that doesn't happen, if you remember that comes after WERNER (a
JASP partner in BE) was censored when he wanted to invite me for a keynote
at the excellent javapolis.  Who knows... It is just a rumor that I will be
there on Wednesday, I don't know anything about it... He he.   

Finally I will be in AMST with our JASP partner (finalistIT) prospecting new
customers. 

And that's it, until next time,

remember we love you, 

marcf


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