The New Standard for Web Development: Free Software

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Agris, a unit of John Deere & Co., sells a back-office system targeted at the agriculture industry. When the company decided to use an application server to add a Web component to its offering, it spent two weeks conducting a side-by-side evaluation of BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, and Jboss. "In terms of stability," says Roark, "we found that Jboss was as stable as BEA, and more stable than WebSphere. From a performance standpoint, all three were pretty much equal. And when you looked at ease of deployment, Jboss was by far the easiest to deploy. To deploy a new application you just put a file in a directory, and it's deployed."