A once-profitable market for a key piece of e-commerce software is cooling, forcing big software makers to rethink their strategies. In the past three years, BEA Systems, IBM, Oracle and Sun ...

It's a myth that technology develops in a linear way, moving full speed ahead without looking back. Much like food or fashion trends, technology goes through cycles every 15 to 20 years, often looping ...

In a non-Web environment, an application server performs the business logic (the data processing), although some amount of business logic may be handled by the user's machine. In a private or public ...

Once you have decided to invest in a Java application server, you must determine which one is best for your particular needs. An application server has a wide range of uses, from simple site ...

Too often, the success of a web site brings its doom. After a good publicity blitz, or a healthy growth of its popularity, the number of users visiting a site becomes very large. Then, at certain ...

Two years ago, Oracle's application server software business was in shambles. Even though the market for the software that runs e-business and other Web site transactions was exploding, the likes of ...

The "user's choice" for application servers ranked IBM WebSphere, Adobe ColdFusion, Apache Geronimo, and Oracle WebLogic Server among their favorites The “user’s choice” for application servers, ...