"IT managers who started using Linux on the edge of their enterprise environments, as Web and file servers, and then moved their databases onto Linux tell me that they're impressed with the platform. Now, they want to extend their Linux environment. Can you offer some advice on next best steps?
"Terence Sherlock: The application server is the next area of interest, the one that we're hearing the most about today. Companies are taking open source application servers and put enterprise Java Beans (a platform-neutral set of APIs that allow Java objects to plug into ActiveX (or COM), Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), and other object models) on that..."
