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CloudBees Elected to Serve on Java Community Process Executive Committee
Nov. 6, 2012 09:12 AM
CloudBees,
Inc., the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today
announced that the company has been elected to the Java
Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee. The JCP is an open,
participative process established in 1998. Its mission is to foster the
evolution of the Java platform, in cooperation with the international
Java developer community. As a member of the Executive Committee (EC),
CloudBees will help steer the development of Java technologies. The
CloudBees seat will be held by Steven Harris, senior vice president of
products.
CloudBees has been at the forefront of driving adoption of the Java
platform, delivered as a service. The company believes that the changes
being brought about today by the cloud and PaaS will fundamentally
impact Java developers and the enterprises creating Java-based
applications. The cloud ushers in a new model for more efficient
delivery of IT services. The Java platform must evolve to remain
relevant and to support the changes enabled by the cloud. The JCP is a
key element of the overall Java ecosystem, providing the structure for
community engagement on standardization, compatibility, and platform
definition. CloudBees brings deep Java experience to the JCP, but with
the sensibility of a startup. In addition to Harris, CloudBees employees
include Sacha Labourey, CEO and former CTO of JBoss, and Kohsuke
Kawaguchi, the creator of the Java-based Jenkins Continuous Integration
open source project.
As the CloudBees representative to the Executive Committee, Harris
brings extensive experience both with Java technology and the community.
Before joining CloudBees in 2011, Harris ran the Java server development
team at Oracle for 13 years. In that role, he led Oracle Java enterprise
development and managed much of Oracle's participation in the JCP and
other standards organizations. In addition to Oracle’s Java server
product area, Harris was responsible for the BEA WebLogic and Sun
GlassFish product lines, as well as Java EE overall.
“My objective is to work within the Executive Committee to find ways to
relax controls and lower barriers for involvement and community
contribution so that the JCP serves as a facilitator for driving the
Java platform forward,” Harris said. “PaaS and the cloud are good use
cases to help drive some of the changes needed within the JCP, since
they are examples of innovation being driven by the community,
independent of the JCP, at a rapid pace. The work ahead is very
important for both CloudBees and the community overall, to ensure the
continued success of Java in the future.”
CloudBees is joined by the London Java Community to fill the two open
elected seats to the Executive Committee. Cinterion Wireless Modules
GmbH, Credit Suisse, Fujitsu Limited and Hewlett-Packard were confirmed
for the Oracle-nominated ratified seats.
The JCP Executive Committee includes leaders
from across the Java community, such as Oracle, IBM, Google, Red Hat
and the Eclipse Foundation.
For More Information
About CloudBees
CloudBees (www.cloudbees.com)
turbo-charges the way Java applications are built and deployed to meet
the rapid pace of business in an on-line and increasingly mobile world.
By eliminating the friction caused by provisioning, maintaining and
administering complex hardware and software infrastructure, we
streamline and accelerate the entire Java application lifecycle from
development to deployment. The CloudBees Platform provides a set of rich
services that are easily consumed by developers, allowing them to
rapidly build and deploy new business applications with zero IT
administrative overhead. Our AnyCloud Service Architecture enables those
applications to be easily deployed to any public, regional or enterprise
cloud environment. CloudBees serves the needs of a wide range of
businesses from small startups that want to focus on quickly creating
new on-line businesses to large IT organizations that need to rapidly
respond to new business application projects.
Backed by Matrix Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners, CloudBees was
founded in 2010 by former JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey and an elite team of
middleware and open source technology professionals.
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