Adam Jordens@littlesquare:~/

It’s almost been a year since JavaOne… you know the one with Marc Fluery up on stage in a red beret and the rest of the crew (notably Bill Burke) sporting the same goofy hat at one point or another.

I bet it’s been an interesting ride for Marc and it’s not really a surprise to see him resign. He’s been both controversial and successful at the same time and has every right to walk away from it. Hell, I’d probably do it. I can’t speak from experience but one would imagine RedHat to be an entirely different beast from the geographically dispersed JBoss group. Over the course of last years JavaOne I managed to interact and speak with a number of JBoss employees and developers. The senior JBoss’ers seemed genuinely happy at the time with the prospect of joining RedHat… who knows about the actual project committers.  Rumour has it that they may have gotten a bit of a cold shoulder in terms of compensation for their effort.
From an end-users perspectively, I haven’t really seen much of a difference from a post-RedHat JBoss. The application server and Hibernate still exist. Not to mention that JBossMQ, unfortunately, still exists. Gavin’s going full bore on Seam and I really don’t know what anyone else is doing.  I’m sure there’ll be a bit of a shake-up as even bigger ego’s come into the mix.
It’ll be interesting to see what the JBoss presence is like at this years JavaOne.