Simon Willison’s Weblog

The simple truth is that in the age of Web 2.0/3.0, in the era of cloud and utility computing, the application server is a commodity. A commercial, proprietary app server simply cannot survive in this environment anywhere outside the lethargic, soft-padded walls of the enterprise.

— Aral Balkan

# 8th January 2009, 6:10 pm / appservers, aral-balkan, coldfusion, commoditisation, enterprise, open-source