Although analysts tend to rank Oracle Corp. fourth or fifth among app server vendors, the database giant considers itself an innovator and a force in the evolution of app server technology. In fact, ...

In the 70s and early 80s, when mainframe databases ruled and the micro- and mini-computer revolutions were in their infancy, there were literally hundreds of companies competing to be the new database ...

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Application servers emerged just a few years ago to provide a standardized middle tier in client/server systems. But in a relatively short time, this basic piece of technology has evolved ...

Red Hat, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source solutions, announced the launch of JBoss Enterprise Data Grid 6, a cloud-ready, highly scalable distributed data cache, which can help ease the load ...

There's been a shift in the enterprise Java community when it comes to what has commonly been referred to as an "application server." What was an application server? Historically, when an enterprise ...