On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:45:34AM +1100, Eddie F wrote: > Anyone know of any open source application server projects? > The amount of money that we are going to have to shell out for M$/Citrix > licensing is rediculous.
I don't know if your idea of Application Server is the same as these folks, but the GNUe project (http://www.gnue.org) are producing an application server as part of their aim to produce an Enterprise-grade internet applications platform. >From your comparison to Microsoft and Citrix, though, it looks like you're after more of a centralised server to run regular applications on. Well, any Linux box is capable of doing that, but the problem is that TS or WinFrame will run Windows apps, while a Linux box is going to have a lot more trouble (some Windows apps run on Linux courtesy of Wine, but it's very much on a case-by-case basis). If you're after something along those lines, then you're likely to be out of luck. Encourage your client to switch to thin clients based on Unix - much, much cheaper. Hell, they can spend the licencing fees on software development, which will give them a constantly improving system, for what they used to spend just staying in one spot! If they're not tied to any one particular program, chances are there's an OSS equivalent which will do at least 80% of what they need, and the other 20% can be paid to be developed and given back to the community. Very good publicity... - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
