[ Thanks to Louis Aragon for this
link. ]
“Software from the likes of Allaire, Oracle and the
Sun-Netscape Alliance tend to get most of the attention in the
application server market. But a group of lesser-known open source
technologies is becoming increasingly popular for building
application servers.“
“These offerings – with intriguing names such as Enhydra,
Midgard and Zope – feature most of the same pros and cons of other
open source software. They are free and tend to be more easily
customizable than their commercial counterparts, but generally lack
the service and support infrastructure on which commercial software
users have come to rely.”
“Users of open source application servers swear by the servers,
which like other application servers often sit between back-end
data sources and Web servers. Most of the popular open source
application servers are supported by project teams and Web sites
with plenty of documentation and resources for use by potential
developers.”