JBoss also known as JBoss Group, LLC and JBoss, Inc was a startup based in

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. It produced an open source Java application server called

JBoss WildFly, formerly known as JBoss AS, or simply JBoss, is an application server written by JBoss, now developed by Red Hat. WildFly is written in Java and implements the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) specification. It runs on mul ...

and later

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (or JBoss EAP) is a subscription-based/open-source Java EE-based application server runtime platform used for building, deploying, and hosting highly-transactional Java applications and services develop ...

as well as a suite of related products. In 2006 it was acquired by Red Hat for at least 350 million US dollars.

History

Marc Fleury Marc Fleury (born 1968) is the creator of JBoss, an open-source Java application server. Fleury was born in Paris. He holds a degree in mathematics and a doctorate in physics from the École Polytechnique in Paris and a Master in Theoretical ...

started the JBoss project in 1999. JBoss Group, LLC was incorporated in 2001 in Atlanta, Georgia. JBoss became a corporation under the name JBoss, Inc. in 2004. It was a C corporation headquartered in

, that owned the copyright and trademarks associated with JBoss. In early 2006

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, a major distributor of

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, sought to buy JBoss Inc. for an estimated $400 million. The acquisition would have enabled Oracle to compete with rivals

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and IBM in the

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market (Oracle eventually acquired BEA in April 2008). On April 10, 2006, however,

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announced that they would buy JBoss for at least $350 million, with a top-up of $70 million depending on JBoss' financial performance. The acquisition was completed in June 2006.

References

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