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Xerox Global Services Deploys Sun GlassFish
Briefly Describes Experience with the Open Source Application Server
June 15, 2009,
Volume 136, Issue 3

Favorite part about GlassFish: "Management orientation and facilities via DAS GUI utilization. It's the most integrated administration environment we found."

-- Jean-Baptiste Gauthier, Xerox Global Services
 

Xerox Global Services' Jean-Baptiste Gauthier answers a questionnaire describing the company's production use of Sun GlassFish. In France, they installed GlassFish as their main Java application server on Solaris systems. The Xerox infrastructure includes customer document management and interactions with its customers.

Xerox provides a wide range of products, services, and solutions in global document management. Xerox Global Services provides outsourcing and consulting services as one of the business units of Xerox.

According to Gauthier, his company provides improved systems for managing document processes and helps to save businesses money in document outsourcing. Gauthier provided responses to the questions listed below:

Contents

  • Could you tell us a bit more about XGS in France?
  • Can you tell us about the application, site, or service in which you have adopted GlassFish?
  • How and when did you first find out about GlassFish?
  • What specific version of GlassFish are you using?
  • On what operating system do you run GlassFish? Do you use the same OS for both development and production deployment?
  • On what hardware platform do you run GlassFish?
  • Have you purchased a GlassFish subscription?
  • What specific features or modules of GlassFish are you using?
  • Are you using OpenMQ?
  • What do you like most about GlassFish?
  • What do you like to see improved for GlassFish?
  • Are you using any open source or commercial frameworks or tools in your application?
  • Does your application use a database? If so, which one?
  • Are there any figures about the scale of your adoption which you would like to share?
  • How has GlassFish performed since your application went live? Have you run into any production issues which you would attribute to GlassFish?
  • How would your describe your participation in the GlassFish project?

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