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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...