Marc Fleury
Marc Fleury | |
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| Born | 1968 |
| Education | Physics |
| Known for | JBoss |
Marc Fleury is a Franco-American computer scientist, physicist, musician and businessperson. He is a pioneer of the Open Source movement and the creator of JBoss, an open-source Java application server.
Early life and education
[edit]Fleury was born in Paris, France, to a French father and Spanish mother, and came to the US in the early nineties to work on his doctoral thesis as a visiting scientist at MIT. He earned his Ph.D.from the École Polytechnique, in Paris, France in 1997. He holds a Masters in Theoretical Physics from the École Normale Supérieure.[1] rue d'Ulm (1993). His undergraduate degree was in Mathematics from the Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (1992). He served in the military, as a paratrooper, with the rank of lieutenant in the 17th Parachute Engineer Regiment.[2]
Software Entrepreneur: JBoss
[edit]Fleury worked in France for Sun Microsystems before moving to the United States where he has worked on various Java projects.[3] Fleury'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. Fleury pioneered business models of Open Source known as Professional Open Source.[4] After selling his company to Red Hat, Fleury became Senior Vice President and General Manager of the JBoss Division. On 9 February 2007, his departure from Red Hat was made public.
Technology Investments
[edit]In 2008, Fleury started a new open source project called OpenRemote, to build home automation systems.[5]
The Church of Space and Poèmes Électroniques
[edit]Fleury co-founded the theater and electronic music act known as "The Church of Space" or "Poèmes Électroniques" (The CoS). The CoS served a 3 years residency (2016, 2017, 2019) at Moogfest Music and Arts festival.[6] Poèmes Électroniques was featured on NPR public radio for its premiere in Atlanta in 2015.[7] Since 2018 Poèmes Électroniques has been co-headed with Prof. Stuart Gerber of the Georgia State music dept.[8][9]
References
[edit]- ^ "InformIT Author Bio".
- ^ "Marc Fleury puts his Red Hat on". 19 May 2006.
- ^ "An Open-Source Lightning Rod". Bloomberg News.
- ^ https://aisel.aisnet.org/misqe/vol4/iss3/3/
- ^ "OpenRemote: Community will drive home automation".
- ^ https://moogfest2017.sched.com/artist/marc_fleury.6v1hr67
- ^ https://www.wabe.org/germans-french-unite-atlanta-multimedia-project
- ^ https://www.earrelevant.net/2019/01/sound-and-ritual-gesture-merge-in-concert-at-the-bakery
- ^ https://www.kreattivita.org/en/event/circuits-2019-poemes-electroniques-pow-ensemble
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