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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The two most common transport layer protocols are the transmission control protocol (TCP) and the user datagram protocol (UDP). One of the main differences between the two protocols is reliability.