Application Server
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How close can Big Blue get to BEA?
News BEA Systems has maintained its lead in the lucrative market for application server software, but IBM is quickly closing the gap, new studies show.
Oracle stretches beyond its database roots
News At its customer conference, Oracle details its plans in content management and application servers.
Tags: Database management, Business applications, Databases
Sun to give away server software
News The company introduces revamped application server software and a plan to offer a free version for Solaris, Windows and other operating systems.
Oracle/BEA: 12 months on
News Database maker Oracle finally captures BEA making it a key middleware player, but are results showing?
Tags: Database management, Database, Acquisitions, Servers, App servers, Portal, Sun Microsystems Inc., Database, BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp.
Sun: We screwed up on open source
News Simon Phipps, Sun's chief open source officer, says the company alienated open source developers from 2001 to 2002 but is now healing the rift.
Tags: Open source, Officer, Open-source Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, software, Project GlassFish, sourcing, Java, application server
Background processing coming with iPhone 3.0?
News Apple was supposed to have a quasi-background processing service for the iPhone ready by last September, but might be thinking about taking a step further.
Tags: Handhelds, Smart phones, Mobile processors, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Smart Phone, Apple iPhone 3G, GPU, performance, 3G
Tibco aims to speed up cloud apps
News The Tibco Silver platform promises to reduce time taken to build cloud applications using features such as "self-aware elasticity".
Tags: Cloud computing, Business applications, Mobile applications, App servers, Operating systems, Ruby, Quocirca, VMware Inc., business availability, C++
Aussies hit with IBM price hike
News IBM has confirmed it will raise Australian prices on a number of its products by 3 percent effective from 1 January 2010, in response to what Big Blue described as "changing economic conditions and cost structures".
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Business applications, Adobe Systems Inc., IBM Corp., software, IBM WebSphere Application Server, Business applications, Business Strategies & Functions, Adobe PhotoShop, Microsoft Windows 7
Aust competition watchdog eyes Oracle-Sun buy
News The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission says it has begun monitoring Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, but provides no further details on its concerns.
Tags: App servers, Databases, Servers, Australian Competition And Consumer Commission, Larry Ellison, Database, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hardware, monitoring, Oracle Corp.
Google Chrome: yet another reinvention of the wheel?
Blogs Google has finally released its new strategic weapon: Google Chrome, a Web browser developed on the Webkit project. L...
Infortrend moves into enterprise storage
News The company is hoping that its five new SAN systems for scale-out storage will pull in medium-sized business customers.
Tags: Storage management, Data Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Enterprise Storage, SAN, storage virtualization, IBM Corp., Data Management, Storage management, Infortrend
Oracle delivers Fusion 11g updates
News Oracle's updated middleware suite slots into its vision of an integrated software stack that pulls together not only a customer's operations but also the software company's many acquisitions.
Tags: Network infrastructure, Databases, Acquisitions, SOA, Database, Tool, Environment, social networking, Oracle Corp., Identity Management
Sun-Netscape duo announces new application server software
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Oracle, Dell sign software deal
News The database software behemoth is in a deal with Dell Computer that it hopes will expand the adoption of its e-business software in midsized businesses.
Sun readies Java app servers
News Company is testing Java System Application Server 8--and hoping that it'll boost the company's share of the Java server software market.
Tags: Java
