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Report:Challenging The Middleware Megavendors

A SWOT Analysis Of Specialized Business Process Platform Vendors: Cordys, Progress Software, Red Hat, Software AG, And TIBCO

Forrester applied its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) methodology to the four middleware megavendors in September 2009: IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP. We now turn our...

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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:Ultra High Performance Messaging: Opportunities In Asia Pacific

This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of application-to-application ultra high performance messaging and market opportunities in Asia Pacific with a special focus on the market...

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Report:Behind "Cloud" Is Your Future Application Environment: Ultra Modular Computing

Shift Cloud Excitement To Your Own Data Centers

Cloud computing is all the rage, but its greatest benefit may be to teach IT organizations how to build flexible and cost-efficient private data centers. The technical foundations of cloud computing...

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Report:Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Adoption By Firm Size

Enterprises and SMBs report on their usage and satisfaction of service-oriented architecture (SOA).

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Report:Lean Software Is Agile, Fit-To-Purpose, And Efficient

Bloat kills. Whether it's excessive complexity in the application, its underlying platform or architecture, or the process used to deliver it, overloaded platform software and heavy processes impede...

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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: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:Shaping Your Middleware Strategy To Benefit From ESBs

Many enterprise message-oriented middleware (MOM) infrastructures have evolved into complex assemblies of multiple proprietary products. Despite innovations like enterprise application integration...

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Report:Web Services Specifications: The Vendor View

Perspectives On How Vendors Do And Don't Support Web Services Specs

Web services adoption continues, but it is taking a long time to work out all the specifications and standards. Vendor support is a big part of determining which specifications last and which don't....

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