IBM (with WebSphere) and BEA (with WebLogic) currently dominate the Java application server market, while Microsoft dominates the non-Java market, with iPlanet a distant fourth. Aggressive competition with BEA and IBM - Sun's key allies in the Java...
According to a report by Forrester Research, iPlanet's Application Server ranked first above IBM's WebSphere Advanced Edition, SilverStream's Application Server, Microsoft's Windows 2000 Server and Inprise's Application Server.
According to Forrester Research, iPlanet's Application server is ranked first above IBM's WebSphere Advanced edition and Microsoft's Windows 2000 server. Over the past few months the company has been slowly stockpiling resources.
The new WebSphere version supports web services technologies based on the latest Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standard. IBM WebSphere Application Server version 5 will feature additions designed to let developers more quickly build applications...
Less than 30 per cent of IBM’s ISVs work exclusively with WebSphere and the figures for BEA are probably not dissimilar. For example, PeopleSoft has versions of its product for both WebSphere and WebLogic.
IBM now offers Gluecode's software as a free product called WebSphere community edition. He added: "They could position it as a lower-end alternative, much as IBM has done with WebSphere CE, recognising that their larger accounts aren't likely to...