This presentation discusses the movement of companies toward Open Source and how partnering with JBoss, Inc. has helped HP address these changing customer needs. This presentation reviews market trends for Open Source with a focus on both the growth of the JBoss Application Server and Open Source, and also the barriers to adoption. In addition, the presentation covers specific case studies where the HP/JBoss alliance has helped enterprises to successfully deploy the JBoss Application Server in a production environment.

This presentation explores the benefits of the JBoss Open Source Federation, and discusses the benefits of trying to federate your open source projects. Also discussed are ways to effectively and efficiently organize your development.

Today most software organizations provide reactive support: you have a problem, you call, they help. So we asked our customers and our community how can we change the way that enterprise software support is delivered? In this presentation you will learn how the JBoss Network has been shaped on this feedback and will enable improved efficiency for development, QA, security and sys ops teams; provide integrated knowledge access across forums, wikis, documentation, code, javadocs, tutorials and support cases; provide the latest knowledge of patches, updates, and upgrades; enable a standard way to apply patches and software across your middleware and, last but not least, provide effective mechanisms to proactively manage your enterprise middleware.

During this presentation we will share some of the patterns that passed the test of time. These include hiring practices, knowledge sharing, peer reviews, resource utilization, automated testing, community feedback and others.