BEA Ships Virtualized Java Application Server
Type: Competitive Update
Analyst: B. Shimmin
Report Date: July 25, 2007
Module: Application Infrastructure
ID: CIR24999 |
Current Perspective: Positive
Vendor Importance: Very High
Market Impact: High |
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Summary
Event Summary
July 23, 2007 -- BEA Systems announced the general availability of WebLogic Server Virtual Edition, a Java application server packaged into a middleware appliance optimized for virtualized environments. The product is designed to help reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and deployment complexity, and marks the first major milestone in execution of BEA's virtualization strategy and product roadmap announced in December 2006.
Analytical Summary
• Current Perspective: Positive on BEA’s release of WebLogic Server Virtual Edition because this product gives BEA a solid foundation and high profile starting point for strategic virtualization play, which begins with a Java application server virtualization and will continue with the development of an adaptive and automated provisioning and management environment.
• Vendor Importance: Very high to BEA as the company is banking on a strong virtualization product set as a key differentiator in its own right and as a powerful factor of the company’s event driven architecture (EDA) push, under which it already offers an event server and a real-time Java messaging server.
• Market Impact: High on the SOA platform market because server virtualization is expected to become the norm for SOA deployments by the end of 2008. BEA’s approach, which is architecturally unique and leverages the company’s established Java VM product, JRocket, will provide strong competition for both open and closed source virtualization solutions from XenSource/Red Hat, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and others.
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