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 ...

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 ...

It's a myth that technology develops in a linear way, moving full speed ahead without looking back. Much like food or fashion trends, technology goes through cycles every 15 to 20 years, often looping ...

What is the best application server? The answer depends on what an enterprise is looking for. Compare Apache Tomcat to these four offerings to see which Java app server fits. Continue Reading ...

Sun ONE Application Server 7, Platform Edition, is available immediately, and both development and deployment on the app server is free, said Rick Schultz, group marketing manager for Sun ONE Java Web ...

Oracle released on Tuesday an application server aimed at midsize companies, part of the company's drive to spur sales of its server software. At the Oracle OpenWorld customer conference in London, ...

The announcements were first disclosed in CRN on Tuesday. To date, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has delivered a total of seven Sun ONE software products on Linux including the Sun ONE Web ...

I've always been a big proponent of using NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices for dedicated file and media storage and backup. They are a low-power, low-cost alternative to a dedicated PC server, ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Web clients should never hit an application server directly. Instead, all web-based requests ...