Tomcat vs. Websphere (was: JAVA400-L Digest, Vol 4, Issue 224)

Kelly Cookson wrote:

Tomcat is definitely a good servlet engine. But our managers won't
authorize production use of any 3rd party application without a support
package to back it up. If we have a problem with Tomcat, we want to be
able to pick up the phone, call support, and say, "How do we fix this?"
This is the biggest stumbling block to all open source applications in
our shop.

Had a funny discussion with someone at COMMON this last week ... they
were telling me about a customer of theirs didn't allow any open source
software installed on any systems.  Apparently, this included embedded
software too.  They had a conniption when they found out that WDSC was
based on Eclipse and the intranet system they bought was based on Tomcat.

david