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Server wars: Open-source Java vs Weblogic and WebSphere

Open source is winning the Java application-server war in the age of the cloud, according to a new survey.                                 Web application performance company  New Relic released  results of its recent study  on commercial vs. open-source Java application server usage among enterprises. The result: open source is winning by an overwhelming margin when it comes to web applications. New Relic surveyed 1,000 customers to get some data on the state of open-source in business today. According to the results, over 80 percent of enterprise users across five main industries (business software, consumer internet, ecommerce, gaming, and social web) are using open source Java app servers like Apache TomCat, Jboss, jetty:// and GlassFish, over commercial Java servers from Oracle and IBM. The big move by enterprises from legacy vendors to open-source corresponds to a  survey last...