Readers of this blogsite may know that I typically don't talk too much about specific products. And I try not to talk too much about "inflection points," because it seems we've been at one every month ...

At the recent Oracle OpenWorld event, Oracle announced a series of new enhancements to its Java middleware stack, which incorporates application server and Java tools from last year's BEA acquisition.

At the recent Oracle OpenWorld event, Oracle announced a series of new enhancements to its Java middleware stack, which incorporates application server and Java tools from last year's BEA acquisition.

Open-source middleware consortium ObjectWeb has announced the Petals project, a step forward for its year-old Enterprise Service Bus initiative. Petals will focus on the development of a Java Business ...

VMware announced this week that it has signed an agreement to acquire SpringSource, the company behind the open source Spring and Grails frameworks. The $362 million acquisition raises some puzzling ...

Oracle has just released what it is calling middleware in a box, which it unveiled at the Oracle Open World in San Francisco. Known more precisely as the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, it is a ...

Microsoft and Oracle may compete head to head in many ways within the database realm, but today the two companies performed the most sweeping cross-join ever as executives from the two companies ...

The two most common transport layer protocols are the transmission control protocol (TCP) and the user datagram protocol (UDP). One of the main differences between the two protocols is reliability.

Sun Microsystems made a flurry of announcements centered around its Solaris 10 operating system Wednesday. The news included the release of a new version of its Java Enterprise System (Java ES) ...

Java remains a powerhouse tool for application development, but developers need to take advantage of new design principles to get the most from their applications. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 ...

Would the Java community thrive as well under Oracle’s control as it did under Sun Microsystems’ control? Vendors of Java products seem split about the question. Mark Little, who is Red Hat’s chief ...