http://www.currentanalysis.com/ Analysis Reports provided by Current Analysis, Inc. en-us All materials Copyright 1997-2010 Current Analysis, Inc. Reproduction or distribution prohibited without express written consent. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:40:52 GMT http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=54028&rss Red Hat's view of the middleware market is maturing with the release of JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5, which seeks an audience beyond its traditional hardcore developers, gaining the attention of enterprise operations customers. Dunlap, Charlotte 2010-06-25T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=53825&rss Microsoft has made a number of announcements this week around developer tools and database products, showcasing the Azure cloud computing platform as a “standardized service” delivery model for dynamic IT and software development. Shimmin, Brad - Dunlap, Charlotte 2010-06-09T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=53789&rss WSO2 has expanded its flagship Carbon middleware platform with an open source cloud computing set of services, WSO2 Stratos, which will ease the enterprise application development task for enterprise customers and cloud service providers alike. Dunlap, Charlotte 2010-06-04T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=53441&rss IBM's acquisition of Cast Iron will help the company make waves in the SMB space with pre-packaged cloud/enterprise integration, migration and synchronization services for cloud services such as Salesforce.com, NetSuite and Google Apps. Shimmin, Brad 2010-05-05T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=53370&rss VMware puts its SpringSource acquisition to work, partnering with Salesforce.com to create VMforce, an open, Java-based PaaS that goes beyond basic CRM capabilities, but this highly differentiated solution won't make an impact until late in 2010. Shimmin, Brad 2010-05-03T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=53112&rss Progress has brought its ESB into the modern era with a major update that gives developers the option of building services as plain old Java objects (POJOs) using Apache's popular open source frameworks, Camel and CXF. Shimmin, Brad 2010-04-14T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=52958&rss Red Hat's version 5 update to its SOA platform will both appeal to existing customers and create greenfield opportunities, owing to resolved shortcomings surrounding UDDI 3.0 support and new capabilities including complex even processing. Shimmin, Brad 2010-03-26T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=52623&rss Oracle's pending acquisition of SOA governance vendor, AmberPoint, will further distance Oracle from its historic dependency upon third parties, creating a governance portfolio capable of supporting Oracle's envisioned systems-complete offerings. Shimmin, Brad 2010-02-18T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=52477&rss Now that Oracle has closed its acquisition of Sun, the company has officially reversed its longstanding philosophy of software centricity, moving to market both hardware and software with an aim of creating systems-complete, integrated solutions. Shimmin, Brad 2010-01-29T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=41125&rss Software AG is now well situated to play a dominant role in the application infrastructure space with its stock-based takeover of IDS Scheer and the significant expansion of the webMethods middleware suite. Shimmin, Brad 2010-01-29T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=41124&rss Oracle continues to strengthen its application infrastructure portfolio with the release of Fusion Middleware 11g, covering hot topic areas such as BI, business rules, BPM and CEP. Shimmin, Brad 2010-01-04T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=52292&rss HP Communication and Media Solutions (CMS) used the 2009 Industry Analyst Day to emphasize its strategic shift away from OSS/BSS as an ‘infrastructure business’ issue by presenting a four-step blueprint for monetizing a ‘business infrastructure.’ Ostergaard, Bernt 2009-12-23T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=41254&rss TIBCO continues to strengthen its SOA platform through its partnership with governance player HP, and its ongoing work within the open source development tooling community. Shimmin, Brad 2009-12-16T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=52250&rss Despite financial difficulties and pending acquisition instabilities, Sun has released a set of Java tools (SDK, IDE and application server) that will jumpstart interest in and foster support for Java EE 6 within the company's customer base. Shimmin, Brad 2009-12-14T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=52224&rss With its new Governance System offering, AmberPoint is expanding into end-to-end policy enforcement and repository management with a per-CPU price tag oriented toward small businesses and pointed SOA installations. Shimmin, Brad 2009-12-09T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=52023&rss Though still a work in progress, WSO2's Cloud Platform has pushed the vendor to the forefront of cloud-based SOA development via a series of virtual machines, a security and QOS gateway and a multi-tenant SOA governance solution. Shimmin, Brad 2009-11-18T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=51854&rss IBM moves its situational application assembly server into better alignment with non-technical business users with the introduction a wizard-based, drag and drop widget assembly UI. However, the update misses cloud and bundling sales opportunities. Shimmin, Brad 2009-10-30T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=51798&rss SpringSource has successfully asserted its continued autonomy from its new parent company, VMware, with a major update to its popular Spring development framework, adding full Java EE 5 and REST support as well as a new expression parser. Shimmin, Brad 2009-10-23T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=51745&rss Oracle maps out the future of its middleware platform along the lines of vertical knowhow, developer productivity, packaged application integration and mobile device support. But a lack of shipping product blunts the impact of these announcements. Shimmin, Brad 2009-10-16T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=51708&rss Building on its use of the Agile development method and the SCA component model, IBM has solidified its middleware leadership position in terms of portfolio depth, product interoperability, technological maturity and execution of corporate vision. Shimmin, Brad 2009-10-13T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=51496&rss Red Hat continues to refine its Java application platform with a new microcontainer architecture built to suit multiple development models such as OSGI, POJO and Tomcat. But its SaaS capabilities are hampered by slowly evolving development tools. Shimmin, Brad 2009-09-10T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=51482&rss Building on a company name-change, MuleSoft is eyeing the Apache Tomcat market through a pure Tomcat core coupled with value-added capabilities such as an application integration API and advanced application deployment and management tools. Shimmin, Brad 2009-09-09T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=51279&rss BMC Software has taken the plunge into the application management market with the acquisition of MQSoftware, bringing together its systems management expertise and the ability to monitor distributed applications. Meehan, Michael 2009-08-13T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=51271&rss VMware has entered the application infrastructure market with a flourish thanks to the $420 million acquisition of open source vendor SpringSource, recasting the entire relationship between software and virtualization. Meehan, Michael 2009-08-12T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=51249&rss WSO2 has updated its REST-based SOA registry, making it capable of federating third-party registries and positioning it as a foundational piece of the company’s Carbon SOA platform as it chases enterprise-level customers. Meehan, Michael 2009-08-07T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=51179&rss IBM’s $1.2 billion acquisition of predictive analytics vendor SPSS stands to create important synergies with IBM’s BPM and SOA portfolio, providing intelligence that can feed directly into the company’s application infrastructure solutions. Meehan, Michael 2009-07-31T00:00:00-04:00