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Report:Here Comes The Open Web — Embrace It

The New Web Platform For Customer Engagement And Much More (Part 1)

The Web is moving on to a new era of openness, mobility, and digital business. The open Web is a platform built on HTTP (the fundamental web protocol), a new generation of HTML, dynamic languages,...

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Report:The Future Of Java

Java Will Be Constrained By The Bounds Of Oracle's Business Model

Drama has been running high since Oracle began to shape up the Java technology it acquired along with Sun Microsystems. Oracle ended the impasse over a new core Java release, set out a road map for...

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Report:WebSphere 7 Reaffirms IBM's Java Platform Lead

New Reliability And Integration Features Will Simplify Stack Management

With the seventh generation of its WebSphere software, IBM redefines the state of the art in Java platforms. The WebSphere 7 product family provides application development and delivery pros with new...

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Report:The Mall Of Google

The Internet Ad Giant Shifts Emphasis To Include Enterprise IT

Open source is no longer a "don't ask, don't tell" secret in enterprise application development shops: Increased executive awareness and evolving open source business models are leading shops to...

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Report:Market Overview: The Middleware Software Market, 2009

Software AG And TIBCO Challenge IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, And SAP

The middleware software market went through a sequence of paradigm changes in the past three decades. Most vendors offer middleware portfolios with various software components from basic application...

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Report:Oracle Gets More Specific About Its Sun Plans

No Forced Migrations, But Only Some Sun Products Seem Strategic To Oracle

As the European Commission's (EC's) objections to the acquisition of Sun Microsystems continue to delay the deal, Oracle issued clarification on its intentions for Sun's technology, most notably its...

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Report:Market Momentum: Middleware Software Market, H2 2008 And H1 2009

Middleware Vendors Must Fight For Awareness In A Consolidating Market While Offering Cloud Innovations

Forrester's market momentum data includes mergers and acquisitions (M&A), product, partnership, and strategy/go-to-market announcements. A trend analysis provides vendors with important background...

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Report:The Tier One Middleware Vendors

A SWOT Analysis Of The Leading Business Process Platform Vendors: IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, And SAP

The four largest traditional software vendors — IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP — compete around business process platform software. This broader software segment covers all the...

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Report:With "11g," Oracle Steps Out Of IBM's Middleware Shadow

New Release Will Also Blast Past SAP NetWeaver And Challenge Microsoft

The latest release of Oracle Fusion Middleware, dubbed "11g," establishes Oracle as the innovator among Java platform vendors. The first modules of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g — the core Java...

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Report:IBM's Bid For Sun Is About More Than Just Solaris And Java

Sun's Innovations Can Improve IBM's Prospects Outside Enterprise Markets

Vendor strategists are calling Forrester asking what we make of the possibility of IBM buying Sun Microsystems. The conventional wisdom is that IBM wants to capture the Solaris/SPARC customer base to...

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Report:Market Momentum: Middleware Software Market, H1 2008

The middleware software market continues to mature — from the bottom of the technology stack to the higher layers. A set of 15 representative vendors announced a healthy mix of new product...

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Report:Oracle Absorbs BEA's Middleware: The Impact On Application Development Managers

You Won't Be Forced To Migrate Or Upgrade, But Many Shops Will Want To

The best news in Oracle's plan to absorb BEA Systems' middleware products: No forced upgrades and/or migrations for nine years. At the same time, Oracle disclosed plans for a rationalization of...

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Report:The Vendor Positioning Review Self-Assessment Tool For Middleware Vendors

This vendor positioning review self-assessment tool gives you the opportunity to score your own vendor positioning and compare the results with the positioning of six leading middleware software...

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Report:Middleware Vendor Positioning Benchmark, Q2 2008

A Review Of Middleware Marketing Practices With A Self-Assessment Tool

Forrester used its vendor positioning review (VPR) methodology to evaluate the positioning of six top middleware vendors across 14 criteria to determine where they are currently positioning...

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Report:Application Server Quality: Review Your Assumptions

Which application server has the fewest critical bugs? Is easiest to configure? Has the best quality overall? These questions play a key role in application development professionals' evaluations of...

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Report:An Oracle-BEA Combo: How It Will Affect You

By acquiring BEA Software's wealth of large corporate customers and well-respected middleware products, Oracle would be second only to IBM in that key market. Oracle's Larry Ellison has long...

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Report:Red Hat/JBoss Has To Catch Up In Application Server Platforms

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007

Red Hat's JBoss division's platform suite scored well in basic platform criteria in our evaluation of application server platforms, and its product costs are very attractive. But JBoss' rating...

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Report:SAP Is A Strong Performer But Lags Behind The Pack In Application Server Platforms

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007

After a strong showing in our 2004 evaluation, SAP disappointed in this year's Forrester Wave™ evaluation of application server platforms. SAP earned low scores across the board, emerging as a...

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Report:Pegasystems Is A Strong Performer In Two Application Server Platform Scenarios

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007

Pegasystems debuts in the Forrester Wave™ evaluation of application server platforms as a Strong Performer. Pegasystems represents a new breed of platform for composite application and SOA...

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Report:Microsoft Is A Leader In Application Server Platforms

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007

Microsoft is a Leader in our evaluation of application server platforms, due to the strong and mature development, deployment, management, and interoperability features of its Windows Server...

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Report:Sun Microsystems Is A Strong Performer In Application Server Platforms

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007

What a difference 18 months makes. Sun Microsystems trailed the field in our 2004 evaluation of application server platforms and is a solid Strong Performer in this year's evaluation. Sun's platform...

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Report:Magic Software Is A Strong Performer For SOA In Application Server Platforms

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007

Magic Software, a company focused on midmarket companies and departments within large enterprises, showed that it has a strong platform for many Web and SOA applications. Magic's iBOLT Suite scored...

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Report:Oracle Is A Leader In Application Server Platforms

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007

Oracle is a Leader across the board in our evaluation of application server platforms. This is the result of the broad range of development, deployment, and management features built into its Oracle...

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Report:IBM Is A Leader In Application Server Platforms — Except For Its High Costs

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007

IBM's current offering scores in our evaluation of application server platforms are strong, reflecting the big portfolio of products included in IBM's platform. But IBM's strategy scores were held...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Application Server Platforms, Q3 2007

Oracle, Microsoft, And IBM Are The Leaders; Pegasystems Surprises

Forrester evaluated the major application server platform suites and vendors across 175 criteria and found that Oracle received the highest scores across all of the scenarios we evaluated, due to its...

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