"Marc Fleury" (born 1968) is the creator of JBoss, an open-source Application server#Java application servers/Java application server.

Fleury was born in Paris. He holds a degree in mathematics and a Doctorate in physics from the École Polytechnique in Paris and a Master in Theoretical Physics from the École Normale. He worked in France for Sun Microsystems before moving to the United States of America/United States where he has worked on various Java (programming language)/Java projects.

Marc's research interest focused on middleware, and he started the JBoss project in 1999. JBoss Group, LLC was incorporated in 2001 in Atlanta, Georgia. JBoss became a corporation under the name JBoss, Inc. in 2004.

After selling his company to Red Hat, Fleury became Senior Vice President and General Manager of the JBoss Division. However, Fleury went on a "Paternity Leave" in January 2007, supposedly until 15 March 2007 but was widely rumored to be leaving Red Hat. On 9 February 2007, his departure from Red Hat was [http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2093145,00.asp made public], saying Fleury "has decided to leave Red Hat to pursue other personal interests, such as teaching, research in biology, music and his family."

He is an ex-lieutenant for the French paratroopers.

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We are throwing our collective hats in the ring - no pun intended - to be the super company for independent open source development.

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It was very important to me to know that I was taking this company into an environment that was conflict-free where there could be trust.

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In open source, the rule is release early, release often. But that's often at odds with what enterprises want. If I have $10 million to invest in product, we do 10 $1 million projects and put it out there to see what works.

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This announcement is focused on the infrastructure part of open source.

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