Time flies. It has been 3 years since I joined JBoss in August 2004. In those 3 years, we went from the “bad boy of open source” to one of the most successful software companies since the dotcom era. We went through a 350-million-dollar acquisition by Red Hat and made a few millionaire open source developers in the process. We fought and won battles against industry mammoth like IBM, Oracle, and BEA with style and vengeance. It is a great pleasure to work with such a talented and passionate team of professionals. Yet, the time has came for me to move on. I will be leaving Red Hat by the end of this month to join an Austin-based startup, eZee Inc., to work on mobile payment applications.
As someone who wrote 3 books on mobile technologies, I always had a great passion for mobile. eZee has a very experienced management / business development team, leading technologists (pat on the back for myself!), strong connection with University of Texas, and adequate funding to push a consumer product. It is too good an opportunity for me to pass up … Read more about the company here. My role in the new company will be “mobile strategist.” What the hell is that, you ask? Well, as typical in a startup, I will do everything from product design, project management, writing code, to taking out the trash. 
We have around 10 employees now and look to grow aggressively. If you are interested in joining us, let me know. I cannot promise the future but I can guarantee that you will be working on some of the most exciting technologies (server side and mobile client side) today. As technologists, we set out to change the world (i.e., to change the way how people use money). If we happen to make some money in the process, that would be very nice too. 
While the software we write in eZee will not be open source (financial and payment stuff are highly sensitive), we will certainly use a lot of open source products and contribute back to the community. So, I will continue to be an active committer on several JBoss / Red Hat open source projects, in particular JBoss Seam and JBoss Tools. I will continue my writing on JBoss Seam in this blog and plan to publish a second edition of my JBoss Seam book early next year.