Tab Sweep : JBoss
Jan 4th, 2009 by sharps
I just noticed the JBoss AS 5.0.0 GA community release downloads had a strong start over the break – ~40k in 3 weeks – that’s more than 5.0.0 CR2 accumulated in 3 months (note I’m only looking at the downloads reported from JBoss.org).
OpenLogic have the results of a survey on Open Source web / application servers. The only surprise is Spring’s DM Server appearing so quickly – I actually thought it might take longer to get traction given the amount of competition in this space. Glassfish is also making good progress.
37% Tomcat
26% JBoss
18% GlassFish
4% Geronimo
3% Caucho Resin
3% SpringSource DM
1% Jetty
0% JOnAS
7% Other
Compare the competition and acivity with the Proprietary space – just 2 vendors trying to maintain their relevance and support revenue stream. Interestingly – the major impediment to adoption cited in the survey is “Robustness/scalability/performance”. Interesting because that’s often one of the reasons many of our reference customers move to JBoss. I’ll write a fuller response to this survey next week when I’m out of vacation mode.
I’ve lost track of how many “predictions for 2009″ I’ve read but they nearly all claim that the world-wide recesion will be a catalyst for open source adoption; many of them mention JBoss as the poster child for Open Source displacing encumbent, proprietary alternatives. Here’s one such quote from Dr. Dobb’s Roger Burkhardt :
… traditional companies like Oracle to actually raise prices during the economic downturn. The company’s 45 percent increase on its BEA acquired-WebLogic application server, for instance, is causing customer migration to JBoss’ open source enterprise application server“
Finally – I know it’s some time off but you might want to put JBoss World 2009 in your calendat – it’s in Chicago on September 1-3rd. And next month we have the JBoss Virtual Experience – an online conference for JBoss Developers, Customers, Users.
