"The French internal revenue service announced on Thursday that it has chosen JBoss's open-source application server to run the next version of its tax applications.
"The move comes as part of a French ministry initiative called 'Copernic' that will overhaul entire information technology infrastructure of the country's tax system. The ministry considered tenders for a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application server. Although the tax agency did not reveal which companies JBoss bid against, it is thought that IBM's WebSphere, BEA's WebLogic and Oracle software were tendered..."