{{pp-pc1}} {{Infobox person |name = Marc Fleury |image = Fleury1.jpg |caption = |birth_name = |birth_date = 1968 |birth_place = Paris |death_date = |death_place = |death_cause = |resting_place = |resting_place_coordinates = |nationality = |other_names = |known_for = JBoss |education = Physics |alma_mater = |employer = |occupation = |title = |height = |term = |predecessor = |successor = |party = |boards = |spouse = |partner = |children = |parents = |relations = |signature = |website = |footnotes = }} '''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 == 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=InformIT Author Bio |url=https://www.informit.com/authors/bio/A94A124A-8A88-4555-AA88-BE90F88852E7}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |date=19 May 2006 |title=Marc Fleury puts his Red Hat on |url=https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/marc-fleury-puts-his-red-hat-on/8487}}</ref>
== Software Entrepreneur: JBoss == Fleury worked in France for Sun Microsystems before moving to the United States where he has worked on various Java projects.<ref>{{cite web |title=An Open-Source Lightning Rod |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2006-04-09/an-open-source-lightning-rod |website=Bloomberg News}}</ref> 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.<ref>https://aisel.aisnet.org/misqe/vol4/iss3/3/</ref> 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 == In 2008, Fleury started a new open source project called OpenRemote, to build home automation systems.<ref>{{cite web |title=OpenRemote: Community will drive home automation |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/openremote-community-will-drive-home-automation/}}</ref>
== The Church of Space and Poèmes Électroniques == 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.<ref>https://moogfest2017.sched.com/artist/marc_fleury.6v1hr67</ref> Poèmes Électroniques was featured on NPR public radio for its premiere in Atlanta in 2015.<ref>https://www.wabe.org/germans-french-unite-atlanta-multimedia-project</ref> Since 2018 Poèmes Électroniques has been co-headed with Prof. Stuart Gerber of the Georgia State music dept.<ref>https://www.earrelevant.net/2019/01/sound-and-ritual-gesture-merge-in-concert-at-the-bakery</ref><ref>https://www.kreattivita.org/en/event/circuits-2019-poemes-electroniques-pow-ensemble</ref>
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