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 ...

Flying the banner of multitechnology accommodation in its Java middleware stack, Red Hat is introducing on Monday its JBoss Open Choice application platform strategy. The effort features the JBoss ...

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.

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 ...

Reusable code, dev speed and low cost are often cited when enterprises opt for open source tools over their commercial counterparts. Support and maintenance are not. Seattle-based SourceLabs is ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...