Technology >> CEO Interviews >> October 8, 2004
MARC FLEURY, Ph.D., is Founder, Chairman and CEO of Jboss Inc. Born in
Paris in 1968, Marc got his Ph.D in physics from the Ecole Polytechnique
in Paris. He started in Sales at Sun Microsystems France and then moved
to the US where he worked on early java enablement of SAP at SAPLabs.
Marc started the JBoss project in 1999. An ex-Lieutenant in the
paratroopers, Marc holds a degree in Mathematics from the Ecole
Polytechnique, a master in Theoretical Physics from the Ecole Normale
ULM and was a visiting scientist at MIT during his thesis. Marc's
research interest focuses on aspect oriented middleware. Profile
TWST: We would like to begin if you will with a brief historical sketchof the company and a picture of the things you are doing at the present
time?
Mr. Fleury: JBoss is what we call the