Marc Fleury
Published for the Week Of October 18, 2004
FOR: Open-source app servers
JBoss’s Marc Fleury is so adept at raising hell in the software industry it’s surprising that the worst antic he pulled as a teenager was to sneak out of his home at night to write code.
But it was programming, not parties, that landed the founder, chairman and CEO of the Atlanta-based open-source company in hot water when he was 15. Fleury and a friend would spend all night building games in the Assembler programming language for the Sinclair ZX81 computer, but the jig was up, he said, when local police picked him up for curfew violation.
This combination of rebellion and geekiness is one of the reasons Fleury and JBoss have turned the J2EE application server market on its ear.
Even before the JBoss open-source Java application server was fully J2EE-compliant, it was popular with developers because of its support for bleeding-edge development technologies such as aspect-oriented programming.
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Fleury’s credibility as a techie also has helped him convince open-source developers that making money from open-source software didn’t mean they were selling out. Fleury is also leading the charge to debunk the myth that open-source software is not a viable option for mission-critical applications.
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Education:
B.A. in mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris; M.A. in theoretical physics, Ecole Normale, Paris; Ph.D. in physics, Ecole Polytechnique and MIT
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Yahoo or google:
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Favorite blog:
His wife’s: Nathalie Mason-Fleury, linuxintegrators.com/ObjectiveCorrelative
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Favorite handheld:
Sony Solid State MP3 player
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Most-used app:
Nightshade (Sony PlayStation 2)
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First paying job:
Pre-sales engineer at Sun Microsystems in France
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Bush or Kerry:
Kerry
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Carbs or no carbs:
“I am French; I eat everything.”