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 ...

Sun Microsystems is expected to announce Wednesday that it is bundling its application server software into its Solaris operating system, a move that could change the competitive landscape in a ...

SpringSource, the Java middleware developer acquired by VMware last August, has released an update for its Apache Tomcat-based TC Server application server, promising to make it easier for Java ...

On Monday, BEA released the first beta of its much-anticipated "Cajun," the code name for WebLogic Workshop, an easy development environment also nicknamed "Visual Basic for Java." The timing couldn't ...

Lutris CEO and President Yancy Lind said Thursday morning that Lutris, a former open-source consulting firm that had most recently been operating as a J2EE licensee and vendor of J2EE app servers, has ...

A Web server exclusively handles HTTP requests, whereas an application server serves business logic to application programs through any number of protocols. Let’s examine each in more detail. A Web ...