The IT industry is characterized by many changes and for the past few years, CIOs across the world have been giving significant attention to Open Source Software.

Analysts expect that in the future, more organizations will be willing to introduce this technology into their environment.

While few organizations still doubt the efficacy of open source, there are many companies that are keen on experimenting and deploying open source application servers in their data centers.

While some IT professionals say that they like open source because it can help them to view and modify source code as needed, hand, many companies like open source because of the cost they save by deploying this technology.

A recent IBM (News - Alert) white paper titled, "IBM WebSphere Application Server V7 vs JBoss Application Server V5, TCO Analysis," discusses in detail how certain types of deployment environments products such as Apache Tomcat, Geronimo, JBoss Application Server and IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition may be cost-effective alternatives.

The white paper discusses the ways operation managers can evaluate solutions to improve the efficiency of their organizations and explains that the bulk of costs shifts from product acquisition to administration and other operational activities as the size and complexity of a deployment and the supporting organization grows.

In addition, the white paper compares IBM WebSphere Application Server V7 with JBoss Application Server V5, and conducts a TCO analysis.

To know more about the comparison between these two solutions read the complete white paper HERE.