I N T R O D U C T I O N  

We already deliver quality service; we are good at it.  The people working in the professional 

services of JBoss Group are all authors and core developers of JBoss.  That is the price of 

admission in the core group: you write, gain the knowledge, you consult.  As a client, you 

come into direct contact with the source of knowledge. This is support that is unheard of in 

the industry.  You can get trained on the latest JBoss technology directly by the authors. 

You can get worldwide support from us, as well as consulting and implementation.  Having 

incorporated in autumn 2001, JBoss Group is today (Q2 2002) more than 10 people strong 

and growing fast as revenues come in. Our clients already include marquee names like 

Nortel, Dow Jones, MCI, US Gov't (Department of Defense/Department of State), not bad for 

a 9 month old... 

We live in the  Age of Enron , and the de cloaking of fictions behind the facade of corporate 

legitimacy that this entails. Against this backdrop, JBoss Group is about a simpler, more 

transparent way of doing business: where we promote our market leading java middleware 

as the cornerstone for our services offering [and no, we don't force you to take our services 

either, for all you skeptics and naysayers). We are cutting edge in the technology we provide, 

but in many ways our business model is based on plain old fashioned common sense we 

grow as our profits allow, take an artisan like pride in our product and compensate the 

developers of the product with the rewards of its success. We are not about reckless profit 

and scams.  We are about knowledgeable service at a fair price  a  quality service behind a 

quality server.   Our free price and Open Source nature have stripped all boundaries to the 

distribution of our product; the free JBoss documentation and JBoss forums are our 

commitment to building a community where knowledge can be shared as well. 

So there you have it, the blueprint of the future.  We strongly believe in it, many of us have 

taken the jump,  the red pill  and are now professionals in Open Source.  We invite you to 

keep an open mind, to contribute, to give us back ideas, contract our services and, for the 

best of you, to join our ranks.  We have the best deal in town, not only from a code 

standpoint but from a  social  standpoint.  Living at home, seeing the kids grow, working 

with our peers on something we are passionate about all this is a luxury in these days of 

scandals, recession and layoffs.  Get with the space program and join us if you can. When 

this recession is over, JBoss and JBoss Group will emerge as one of the most solid structures 

in the industry, and we will have grown in hard economic times.  

I remember someone mentioning that all that was left of the 60's peace and love movement 

(which incidentally produced me) was the computer, because it cultivated an industry. My 

career beginnings took place in the wild technology ride of the 90s. Through professional 

open source, we at JBoss Group see an evolution and maturity in the technology hyperbole 

of the past decade, where we keep the enthusiasm, but don't forget the basics of what we 

produce and why we're here.  We follow the dream and we make the transition.  To those 

who say  won't work  I say  watch . So welcome to the future: we talk with a human voice, 

we give you our work with our passion and our hearts, yet it is with cool heads and 

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