IBM and Covalent Technologies announced they have contributed technology to the Apache Geronimo community to help enterprise customers easily <A HREF="http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/21296.wss">migrate from the JBoss Application Server to the open source Apache Geronimo application server,</A> which is free to download and use.

The new migration tool being contributed to the Apache Geronimo community converts applications built for JBoss to Geronimo by generating the appropriate configuration files.

According to a recent report from Evans Data Corporation, in a single year, IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition, which is based on Apache Geronimo, gained 16 points of market share with Eclipse developers, versus only a 6.6 share gain for JBoss. Additionally, more than 600 independent software vendors and systems integrators have joined IBM's WebSphere Application Server Community Edition partner initiative in just six months.