Unfortunately, I have already stated the below points.  What they want 
is somebody who has actually deployed an applications to around what our 
scale is.  Thanks for your reply though.

Bill

Frank Thiemonge (NBK) wrote:

> These are just business reasons guys. Unfortunately I can somewhat get into
> the twisted mind of a CIO so please don't flame me or anything...
> 
> 1) It has zero monetary cost (but of course, contributions are more than
> welcome)
> 2) It is open source, meaning that is something is broke you don't have to
> wait around for someone else to fix it. I would stress to your boss,
> especially if they have used software from a certain vendor out of Seattle,
> that the days of waiting for 6 months for the vendor to even admit that
> there is a bug then taking a while to decide to fix it or not (usually not,
> and if so the fix takes a while and causes more bugs) would be over.
> 3) A large support base of highly technical, driven professionals
> 4) Complete standards compliance (most commercial vendors can't even say
> that) in 100% pure Java (i.e., completely portable, integratable with other
> java products, etc...)
> 5) Special integration with Apache/Tomcat
> 6) Cutting edge. This helps when recruiting new talent because no good
> programmer wants to work with crap software or in crap programming
> languages. This also helps retention.
> 
> Hope this helps...
> 
> Frank
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Routtier-Wone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 2:48 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [JBoss-user] I need ammo
> 
> 
> Jim, this reason will work on me. It's logical and it's testable, with an
> immediate benefit.
> 
> It will NOT work on a corporate decision-maker who wouldn't know a desirable
> EJB feature if it fell on his head.
> 
> What are the compelling business cases, guys? Or, to put it another way,
> where's the money? I've thought of quite a few, but I won't list them yet
> because I don't want to blind you to your own insights.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jim Archer
> Subject: RE: [JBoss-user] I need ammo
> 
> I'll suggest another reason to use jBoss right now. With an inexpensive
> add-in (check out http://www.mvcsoft.com), you can start codeing in EJB 2.0
> 
> 
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