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.

Singapore’s Premier Regional Search Engine powered by Pentaho, RHEL and JBoss.

Another sucessful deployment for JBoss EAP, JBoss Portal and JBoss Rule – Daiwa Securities America.  Cheaper :

“Daiwa saved $300,000 by avoiding software licensing and hardware expenses that would have been incurred by sticking with the previous solution.”

and better as well :

Reliability is the bottom line. “If our portal were to go down today, it would be catastrophic,” said Dunstan. “The JBoss platform has been extremely reliable and stable. We have had no unscheduled downtime.”

It’s good to see Gavin King blogging more – 3 new posts this weekend. I hear that the Web Beans Reference Implementation is getting very close to an alpha release. Stay tuned.

Last but not least Red Hat and Ingres offer Open Source stack for ISVs.

Every cloud has a silver lining. There’s a common opinion that the adoption of Open Source will only increase if the world’s economies continue to weaken. [O'Reilly Radar, Red Hat's Jim Whitehurst]

Colleague Piere Fricke has written a piece for Network World on Open Source SOA – that’s Simple Open and Affordable – not just Service Oriented Architecture.

According to the Linux Foundation – Fedora 9 (the OS of choice for yours truly) would cost $10.8 billion to develop from scratch; and the Linux kernel alone would cost $1.4 billion. The summary of the report is that “Collaborative development creates enourmous economic value”. No shit Sherlock. I wonder how much money Linux or OSS in general has actually saved companies in the last 17 years.