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. Equally, if, as has been stated, the operating system is being...
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...
It showed that 58 per cent of respondents favoured Microsoft .Net, while 40 per cent selected IBM's J2EE-based WebSphere application server, and 31 per cent chose Oracle's 9i Application server as their platform of choice.
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...