An increasing amount of the bigger deals I see at JBoss come at the expense of our competitors like Oracle and IBM. Technology decisions that were made 5, 6 or 7 years ago are being reviewed and JBoss is the clear alternative
If you are looking to migrate from Weblogic or Websphere we have a growing list of migration success stories including :
KLM / Air France expect to save 11 million Euros by moving from Websphere and AIX to Red Hat and JBoss
Education Testing Services (ETS) reduced costs and boosted competitiveness by moving from Websphere and Solaris to Red Hat and JBoss.
Avis Rental Cars reduced TCO and increased flexibility by moving from Solaris and Weblogic to JBoss and Red Hat
More Weblogic migrations stories
More Websphere migration stories
We also have some practical advice in the form of a couple of Migration Webinars this week :
Best Practices for Switching Application Servers
Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009
JBoss Migration Factory: How to use new JBoss tools to reduce migration risks
Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009
Finally, JBoss World 2009 is just over a month away and there are quite a few sessions on migration from Websphere, Weblogic and Tomcat to JBoss (full agenda)
Rich Sharples' Weblog 