“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…”