app server in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.03.08
Round-Up iPhone and iPod Touch fans are in for a third-party app bonanza after Apple announced more than 100,000 downloads of the Software Development Kit (SDK) in record time. While Apple had to assure some crazed developers that their inability to get... [14 Mar 2008]
Virtualisation gets trendy
Comment By 2003 VMware realised the killer-app for virtualisation was not consolidation alone but the ability to produce flexible, shared resource pools. They originally used it to partition a server to consolidate numerous smaller servers - and for most... [15 May 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Pick a killer mobile app
Comment Mobile client/server: Remote access to enterprise data is broadly useful but the horizontal applications of sales force automation and field service management generate best value. Asking the question "Do we need wireless? [29 Oct 2004]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The politics of enterprise applications
Comment And it is yet another source of irritation for Oracle, which is also a distant third in the J2EE application server market. In the early days of the application server war, BEA was the leader. But SAP is not the only enterprise application vendor... [01 Oct 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Trojan horses, legacy systems and IBM's new clients
Comment The Whole Security software that controls this app sits on a server at the other end of the web connection. The key to the announcement is the concept of server-managed clients - the idea being that any application, data, user interface... [17 May 2004]
Through the fog... Buying an application server
Comment App servers aren't always the easiest thing to explain to the rest of the board. If you are compelled to buy a certain application server to run your application, you do not necessarily have to buy it from the application server vendor. [20 Mar 2003]
App server developments, post-BEA-HP
Comment No sooner are we all led to believe that app server technology has become commoditised and more vendors will even be giving it away for free - albeit to tempt upgrades to better versions or sell related products - than deals are done which cast... [25 Jun 2002]
What is an application server?
Comment Instead, think of the 10 different answers to the question 'what is an app server? An app server is at its base level nothing more than dedicated software that sits on a central computer which makes different applications available to users... [13 Jun 2002]
Analyst advice: How to choose an app server
Comment I would concentrate my effort on the development tools that support the app server rather than on the app server itself. With the core app server now bundled free as a commodity - for example with Solaris - the additional services, such as business... [10 Jun 2002]
All the commentary and analysis...
Comment App server developments, post-BEA-HP http://www.silicon.com/a54172 Analyst advice: How to choose an app server http://www.silicon.com/a53833 The Bloor Perspective: App server league positions http://www.silicon.com/a53575 [09 Jun 2002]
App servers - what you should know, what you should do
Comment The term server is over used and confusing. What should users look for in application server technology? You have to have the right amount of traffic on the web server. The analyst house estimates reckons companies globally have overspent $1bn on... [31 May 2002]
App servers: the main vendor offerings analysed
Comment The complete report will be out in mid-June but initial findings show IBM has come from behind to gain a 10 to 12 per cent lead on revenues derived from app server licences in Europe. However, Hailstone is certain IDC can sufficiently split the... [28 May 2002]
App servers - a market you ignore at your peril
Comment In fact, the app server vendor landscape has become one of the main battlegrounds - each player vying for a slab of a pie currently worth $3bn, according to AMR Research, and considerably more in years to come.silicon.com today launches a special... [28 May 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: App server league positions, Citrix improves MetaFrame and StarOffice 6
Comment BEA has been trumpeting the news it had, once again, managed to retain the number one position in the worldwide application server marketplace. This finding, unearthed by IDC, demonstrated once again how dominant BEA's application server really is. [27 May 2002]
Has Gigabit Ethernet come of age?
Comment He added: "Gigabit Ethernet needs a killer app to persuade people to invest in broadband for the desktop. Nigel Towell, spokesman for Intel, noted a server implementation optical network using Gigabit Ethernet is three times more expensive than one... [30 Oct 2001]
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