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Business leaders today look to the Web to increase business efficiency and capitalize on new revenue potential. Web applications provide great opportunities for businesses to increase the capabilities of their internal programs from simple content and email to highly collaborative and extensive deployment applications that often match specific corporate goals and business processes. But these advantages are counter balanced with the complexities required for extensive growth.

Over the last decade, companies have grown their IT infrastructures around two platform types: a formally supported proprietary middleware stack (BEA, IBM, Sun, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, others) and free-access, open-source software. The former became the corporate standard and was used for most mission-critical applications, while open source became the choice for more immediate-need, less critical applications; however, LAMP, Tomcat, Ruby, and PHP have frequently been leveraged for even mission-critical applications in many enterprises.

The need to leverage IT to grow new revenue and profits at a lower total cost of ownership (and a lower initial cost of development) has moved enterprises to evaluate open-source platforms to enable growth. Some enterprises are looking for a “dual standard” with existing or mission-critical applications remaining on expensive, proprietary software and new or non-mission critical applications being placed on open-source software.