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 ...

Red Hat this week made available its JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 5.0, the foundation for the vendor’s new Java-based middleware strategy and a core element of its emerging cloud plans.

SANTA CLARA, CA–June 18, 2007–Real Time Innovations (RTI), The Real Time Middleware Experts, today announced that it has integrated RTI Data Distribution Service with the Sun Java Real-Time System ...

Move viewed by Azul as boost in Java battle against Oracle. Credit: El Nariz / Shutterstock Eying its competition with Oracle in the Java space, Azul has acquired Payara, a provider of enterprise ...

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.

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) ...

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 ...

What's the next essential step in the evolution of Big Data? If you ask Tony Baer, principal analyst at Ovum, it's the emergence of an applications market. But just as Java-based apps needed app ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...