ideOS

What's More Open, Apache Geronimo or JBoss?

March 30, 2007 - By Sean Michael Kerner

IBM (Quote) is heating up the open source middleware space with a new migration tool for moving from Red Hat's JBoss Application Server to Apache Geronimo.

IBM claims that the Apache model offers greater community collaboration that what JBoss offers, a claim that Red Hat disputes

Read more from this news report @ IT Management

Labels: application-server, competition, ibm, middleware

SAP dismisses open source threat

28th March 2007, By Angela Eager, Computer Business Review

SAP AG will not be impacted by open source ERP software, chief executive Henning Kagermann says.

Despite evidence of open source creep, Kagermann thinks it is still a database and OS-level model. He tackled the rise of open source in a recent interview with Computer Business Review.

"...There are no open source ERP products that are any good for the high end, although it could be argued that they could be developed for the low end," said Kagermann in the interview

Read the full news report from here @ Computer Business Review Online

Labels: competition, erp, sap