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.
The new WebSphere version supports web services technologies based on the latest Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standard. The autonomic features could distinguish it from the pack. IBM WebSphere Application Server version 5 will feature additions...
But a separate survey, also done by Gartner Dataquest, of 138 corporate customers who have hired or plan to hire systems integrators, showed that 39 per cent favoured products based on the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) specification, the rival...
Over the next year and a half, IBM plans to rewrite Lotus' SameTime instant messaging and QuickPlace collaborative applications to run on IBM's WebSphere Portal software. IBM had maintained parallel teams for its Lotus line of software and its...
Historically, applications have needed to be reworked to enable them to make the most out of a grid but new additions to middleware platforms (such as improvements to Oracle's Application Server platform and IBM's latest version of its WebSphere...