Friday, July 06, 2007

Blog discontinued - on to new adventures

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My mission with INRIA as executive director of ObjectWeb just ended. BTW I did my part in the inception of OW2 - a new association which wil...
Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Candidacy to the OW2 Board...

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Well it's board election time in OW2 and I'm candidating as individual members representative. My candidacy (under the 'official...
Thursday, March 29, 2007

InTech Workshop on OSS and Biz Models

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In'Tech and GRAIN are organizing this afternoon (March 29, 2007) a workshop targeted to innovative SMBs on the topic of "Open Sou...
Saturday, February 10, 2007

Free Software World Conference

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I'm just back from the Free Software World Conference (Badajoz, Spain) . This time I regretted only taking 4 years of Spanish while in h...
Thursday, February 01, 2007

ObjectWeb village on Solutions Linux 07

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This year we did not organize an ObjectWeb conference in Q107, simply because the ObjectWeb consortium agreement was over. Yet, the team arr...
Thursday, December 21, 2006

So What's Next?

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The ObjectWeb consortium will end on Dec 31, 2006. As explained in previous entries, an association called OW2 is being incepted. This is th...

Letter to the ObjectWeb and OrientWare Communities

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Dear ObjectWeb members and partners, ObjectWeb is about to undergo the biggest evolution since its foundation as a consortium in 2002 by ...
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

ObjectWeb and Orientware merge to form OW2 Consortium

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The new "OW2 Consortium" is the result of ObjectWeb and Orientware joining their forces to build a global and powerful alliance. A...
Monday, December 18, 2006

End of ObjectWeb Consortium Agreement

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The ObjectWeb story started somewhere around Grenoble in the Alp mountains in the late 90's and now spans the whole planet with active p...
Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Last ObjectWeb Board Meeting

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On Dec 11 & 12 was the quarterly ObjectWeb Architecture meeting, held in Paris (Alcatel HQ). A board and a college meeting were held on ...
Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Two ObjectWeb Projects Winners of Free Software Awards 2006

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OpenMobileIS and SpagoBI won Gold and Silver Awards in the 'Company Management' category of the Free Software Awards 2006. OpenMo...
Monday, November 27, 2006

European Task Force on ICT Uptake

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Today was the final meeting of the Task Force on ICT Sector Competitiveness and ICT Uptake which I attended as an observer, after having pa...
Thursday, November 23, 2006

IST2006 Networking Session on ONESSI

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The IST 2006 edition of the most important European event in the field of Information Society Technologies coincided with the launch of the...
Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Bull Signs Partnership with JBoss

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"French systems and services provider Bull has formed a broad partnership with JBoss that could see the Red Hat subsidiary's open-...
Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Open Source Java

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Sun recently announced the distribution of Java in open source . To be more specific, it means that J2ME would be open sourced soon, J2SE in...
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Issuing a position to the upcoming EU consultation on RFID

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The European Commission is soon to start a consultation on RFID ( http://www. rfidconsultation .eu/docs/ficheiros/JdS_RevGS.pdf ) through...

DADVSI Law to be Voted Tommorrow

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The French government has been pushing for the adoption of a law (known as DADVSI ) that may significantly increase the level of legal risk ...
Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Gartner OSS Summit, Barcelona

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In Barcelona only for 1 day. Attended two presentations: one from M. Felix (Amadeus) about their use of open source, the other from Mark Dri...
Monday, June 12, 2006

ObjectWeb Architecture meeting, Q2-06

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The quarterly meeting was in Lille this quarter - hot weather, by the way, I was not expecting that! Hot presentations too, with a first ta...
Friday, June 09, 2006

OSS2006, Como, Italy

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It's definitely not a pain to go to Como (Italy) for a conference. Although I leave all year surrounded by mountains (Grenoble), I must ...
Monday, May 22, 2006

LinuxWorld, Sao Paulo

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Gosh, it's already over 1 month since I posted my last blog entry. It's so busy in ObjectWeb these days... I'm back in Sao Paulo...
Tuesday, April 18, 2006

JOnAS Mutatis Mutandis

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com Red Hat announced a few days ago that it will buy JBoss . Congratulations to both companies. For sure this deal will bring the best to...
Monday, April 10, 2006

Red Hat Acquires JBoss

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Red Hat just announced in a press release that it will acquire JBoss for $350M . This will tremendously reinforce Red Hat's profile a...
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Engineering Answer to EC Consultation on Patents

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Engineering Ingegneria Informatica sent a well put answer to the EC consultation on the European patent system, which I quote and publish w...

ObjectWeb Architecture Meeting - cont'd

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Roland Balter gave an overview and status of the ObjectWeb RFID initiative . Tom Rose & Ron Rose presented (remotely) the Singularity R...

ObjectWeb Architecture Meeting

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The Q2 architecture meeting organized by ObjectWeb is being held today and tommorrow. The morning session was focusing on ObjectWeb project...
Thursday, March 23, 2006

Consultation on European Patent System

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The European Commission (Directorate General for Internal Market and Services) is consulting stakeholders on their needs in relation to th...
Wednesday, March 22, 2006

The Bright Side of Open Source

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Pierre Cros ( Entr'ouvert ) pointed me to a blog entry from Susan Wu, Chief Marketing Officer of the Apache Software Foundation . Susan...

For Japanese Speakers

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I don't have the chance to speak Japanese, but for those who do, here are a few links to Yoko Sueoka's blog: http://pcweb.mycom.c...
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Monday, March 20, 2006

So What's an "Initiative" Anyway?

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ObjectWeb lately came up with several "initiatives", namely the ESB initiative , RFID initiative and ONESSI . The existing open-so...
Wednesday, March 01, 2006

New ObjectWeb Board of Directors

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ObjectWeb 's Board of Directors has been renewed. Here's the new board: Elected Legal Entity Members Representatives Engineering ...
Friday, February 24, 2006

EasyBeans: Open Source EJB3 Container

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Folks from the JOnAS team started a new cool project at ObjectWeb: EasyBeans . In a nutshell, EasyBeans is a plugable, efficient and easy-to...
Wednesday, February 22, 2006

ObjectWebCon '06 Feedback

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Damn! Time flies and it's already weeks since my last post... It's so busy at ObjectWeb these days. Catherine Nuel, ObjectWeb's ...
Thursday, January 26, 2006

NESSI Forum - Brussels

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Spent the whole day at the NESSI Forum conference in Brussels today. Quick facts: about 340 attendees, 123 organizations (incl about 35 uni...
Monday, January 09, 2006

JOnAS "Missing Manual" Available!

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JOnAS Live , the first "missing manual" on JOnAS is available for purchase at SourceBeat. JOnAS Live is co-authored by Stephane Tr...
Friday, January 06, 2006

Come to ObjectWebCon '06!

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This year, the ObjectWeb annual conference is collocated with Solution Linux , one of the main GNU/Linux and Open Source software events in...
Friday, December 02, 2005

Open Source Connection... Cont'd

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Remember the little "conspiracy theory" I came up with on August 19, 2005? Was about the links between the people behind Service...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005

ObjectWeb Best Use Cases Awards

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ObjectWeb launched the Awards for the Best Use Cases designation to be profiled at the 2006 ObjectWeb Annual Conference. The OWCon06 Best ...
Monday, November 28, 2005

ObjectWeb RFID Workshop, Middleware Conference

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There is an ObjectWeb workshop today, at the Middleware 2005 Conference , about FRID. David Li (board member of OW representing individual m...
Wednesday, November 16, 2005

The Clueless Manifesto

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Talked with Cedric a couple of days ago and he mentioned the Cluetrain Manifesto (the book actually). Tonight I browsed it while having din...