Marc Fleury (born 1968) is the creator of

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 multip ...

, an open-source

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. Fleury was born in

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. He holds a degree in mathematics and a doctorate in physics from the

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in Paris and a Master in Theoretical Physics from the

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. While at École Polytechnique, he served as a lieutenant in the engineer

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. He worked in France for

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before moving to the

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where he has worked on various

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projects. Fleury's research interest focused on middleware, and he started the

project in 1999. JBoss Group, LLC was incorporated in 2001 in

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. JBoss became a corporation under the name JBoss, Inc. in 2004. After selling his company to

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, Fleury became Senior Vice President and General Manager of the JBoss Division. However, Fleury went on a "paternity leave" in January 2007, supposedly until 15 March 2007 but was widely rumored to be leaving Red Hat. On 9 February 2007, his departure from Red Hat wa
made public
saying Fleury "has decided to leave Red Hat to pursue other personal interests, such as teaching, research in physics, music and his family." In 2008, Fleury started a new open source project called

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, to build home automation systems. He is one of the initial investors in

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, a provider of

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software services. In February 2019, Fleury joined the advisory board of the Swiss blockchain banking Fintech company Mt Pelerin. In February 2022, Fleury posted a preprint to the

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describing a self-funded

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experiment to witness violations of Bell's inequality.

References

External links

CNET: Could Red Hat lose JBoss Founder?

Fleury's techno blog

OpenRemote Community
an
professional website
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