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Can JBoss/IONA Displace BEA/IBM in the Enterprise?

Posted by Cliff on from the topics-from-the-watercooler dept.

Anonymous queries: "It was recently announced that JBoss and IONA have entered into a partnership where IONA (who had their own J2EE certified application server) will now provide enterprise support for JBoss. Will relationships like this one allow open source projects to compete with and displace closed source commercial products. Are large enterprises likely to stop paying huge licensing fee's to BEA & IBM, and start deploying on JBoss with an enterprise support contracts from IONA."

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  1. Re:Erosion, not conquering by brainlounge · · Score: 5, Interesting

    JBoss will erode away the lower ends of the J2EE spectrum for sure.

    That's already happening:

    - On development/integration machines. Our development is all done with JBoss. When we ship, we can cross-deploy to the customer's App Server, even to another OS quite seamlessly. Nothing you can do very easily without J2EE. (And you don't _really_ want to code on AIX machines, don't you?)

    - In low-cost projects. Non-business-critical applications with no need for huge administration and support. You really need the money for development, then.

    Being very sceptical in the first place, JBoss blew me away when I got to know it a few month ago. Really cool stuff. Technically, it plays in the same league like all the commercial ones.

    From documentation and support aspects ('support' meaning: calling a hotline, wait one hour, someones coming in, fixing your problem), JBoss is not a good choice. Support through internet forums etc. is quite good, though.
    But you can pay for documentation from "JBoss - The Company". Anyone ever read one of these? Are they good?