Well, actually according to Newton's Law of Arbitrage, RedHat, the company doing the buying, should drop in stock value and the company being bought, in this case a privately held entity, would rise in value.In light of this generalization, the fact that RHAT has rocketed about 10% in value with fairly substantial volume on this news illustrates that the street is pretty darn keen on this acquisition to defy these fairly fundamental gravitational laws of arbitrage.While it would have been great to get in on RHAT a year ago when it was trading at roughly a third of the current price, I'd be pretty cautious at jumping in now as their P/E is solidly north of 70 and the near term outlook for JBOSS adding to the company's bottom line short term are negligible.The pop is already slowing down. I'd wait for the dust to settle and look at picking it up when it's not so hot and the day traders have made their profits and moved on to something else.
I don't know Chris, but the moment Microsoft was tried - and convicted - of abusing their monopoly, may have been when they deserved to be called an evil corporation.But hey, that's just me.
I filed a bug with Jesse Keating a while back to ensure that all communication to the community is available in open formats, hopefully they will work on the issue.
I can understand the thinking behind the idea that buying support is paying for proper doucmentation. However I believe this is the lowest common denominator type of model. Educating their users about the features, and uses of their product would only increase the value of buying support. Why I hear you ask? The easier a product is to learn and use, the more you will use it (of course assuming it is right for the project). This should surely lead to more use, and more demand for the re-assurance that companies get from support contracts. They get immediate help when they encounter bugs (which they probably encounter becuase they use more of the features, having learned about them through the fantasic documentation).
Enterprise class application server. Meaning it makes things easier to scale and adds some necessary functionality without too much overhead. - security- transaction management- management/administration- load balancing- logging- profiling- messeging- etc....Basically if you're builging a real system that manages any type of complex workflow, want maturity and you don't want vendor lock-in use this type of arc. Otherwise build your home page out of one of the "P" (or R) scripting languages in LAMP
databasecowboyApr 10, 2006
Well, actually according to Newton's Law of Arbitrage, RedHat, the company doing the buying, should drop in stock value and the company being bought, in this case a privately held entity, would rise in value.In light of this generalization, the fact that RHAT has rocketed about 10% in value with fairly substantial volume on this news illustrates that the street is pretty darn keen on this acquisition to defy these fairly fundamental gravitational laws of arbitrage.While it would have been great to get in on RHAT a year ago when it was trading at roughly a third of the current price, I'd be pretty cautious at jumping in now as their P/E is solidly north of 70 and the near term outlook for JBOSS adding to the company's bottom line short term are negligible.The pop is already slowing down. I'd wait for the dust to settle and look at picking it up when it's not so hot and the day traders have made their profits and moved on to something else.
tapoApr 10, 2006
I don't know Chris, but the moment Microsoft was tried - and convicted - of abusing their monopoly, may have been when they deserved to be called an evil corporation.But hey, that's just me.
gnomeuserApr 10, 2006
I filed a bug with Jesse Keating a while back to ensure that all communication to the community is available in open formats, hopefully they will work on the issue.
big_daddyApr 10, 2006
I can understand the thinking behind the idea that buying support is paying for proper doucmentation. However I believe this is the lowest common denominator type of model. Educating their users about the features, and uses of their product would only increase the value of buying support. Why I hear you ask? The easier a product is to learn and use, the more you will use it (of course assuming it is right for the project). This should surely lead to more use, and more demand for the re-assurance that companies get from support contracts. They get immediate help when they encounter bugs (which they probably encounter becuase they use more of the features, having learned about them through the fantasic documentation).
zlattyApr 10, 2006
no they did not ... he presented for free
crazenApr 11, 2006
Why would you take the time to post and not just:<a class="user" href="http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=What+is+JBoss">http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=What+is+JBoss</a>
crazenApr 11, 2006
Enterprise class application server. Meaning it makes things easier to scale and adds some necessary functionality without too much overhead. - security- transaction management- management/administration- load balancing- logging- profiling- messeging- etc....Basically if you're builging a real system that manages any type of complex workflow, want maturity and you don't want vendor lock-in use this type of arc. Otherwise build your home page out of one of the "P" (or R) scripting languages in LAMP