“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…”
CNET News: French Tax Office Takes Up Open Source
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