What is it?
IBM's Websphere Application Server Community Edition (WAS CE) is a free downloadable J2EE platform for developing and deploying applications. It is built on the open-source application server, with extensions from IBM, including the IBM Java Developers Kit (JDK) and support for IBM's Java Virtual Machine. IBM has described it as "90% Apache Geronimo with an IBM WebSphere product look and feel".
What is it?
The Apache HTTP web server has lost a great deal of market share to Microsoft's IIS in the last couple of years. But since its share once amounted to almost 80 per cent of the market, a readjustment was perhaps inevitable.