Free WebSphere wins over Java developers | The Register: "It also plays against commercial software, including IBM's original WebSphere app server and BEA WebLogic.
'We see an emerging opportunity for people who want open source application servers - often that's small and medium businesses. It's a 'light functionality' option,' Jollans said. He added that IBM aims to generate revenue from WAS CE by selling support contracts, as it does for Linux.
WAS Community Edition is based on software which IBM acquired by buying Gluecode Software last year. Free to download and use, it takes the Apache software and adds components, such as web services, security, authentication, messaging and web tier clustering.
Jollans acknowledged that the commercial and community editions of WAS are not as similar as their names might suggest.
'They are different code bases - but they both implement J2EE,'"
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