[ Thanks to Jan
Stafford for this link. ]
“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…”