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Tomcat or WAS Liberty Profile?
Java Web application developers now have new option with the newly published beta of the WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile. The nicest thing about this is that unit testing your Java...
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What is your application server of choice?
Current market share numbers from IDC, Forrester, Gartner, etc. all rely on revenue from the sale of licenses and support. However it would be interesting to measure the true install base of the...
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Migrating from Spring to JEE6
I’ve met a number of customers who are using Spring framework instead of the J2EE 1.x – mostly prior to JEE5. In the past there were number of good reasons to do so, including ease of development,...
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How hard it really is to migrate JEE, DBMS, BPM and ESB applications between...
Part of the reason for industry standards to exist is to avoid vendor lock-in. Such was the premise of J2EE – mostly fulfilled. But what about migrating BPM, ESB, DBMS from one vendor to another? Are...
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Comparison of automation tools for large scale WebSphere, WebLogic and JBoss...
What does Electric Tea Kettle have to do with IT automation? Clue – this has nothing to do with the fact that most IT departments have both – the Kettle(s) and IT. Read full article here: Comparison of...
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WebSphere vs. Tomcat and JBoss session at IBM Impact conference
IBM Impact 2012 will take place between April 29 and May 4, 2012 in Las Vegas, USA. I will be hosting a session on the advantages of WebSphere Application Server vs. Open Source products, such as...
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IBM and Oracle software licensing and support in virtualized private cloud...
Oracle license and support policy does not allow companies to take advantage of the server partitioning and imposes high costs practically negating many benefits of virtualization. IBM embraced...
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New Gartner report names IBM a marketshare leader in middleware software
On March 29, 2012 Gartner published their latest middleware marketshare report. According to the report IBM was the leading software vendor with 32.1 percent market share, extending its lead to nearly...
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TCO for WebSphere Application Server vs. VMware tc Server
If I had to compile a list of most frequently asked questions that I get, one of the top 10 is a question on the differences between WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and Apache Tomcat and their...
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Programming model support in lightweight Java servers
Software developers have a lot of tools at their disposal when building modern applications with Java application servers. One of the many trends is the use of lightweight application servers. There is...
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Software costs
This post has two parts: Part 1. Total Cost of Ownership Part 2. Are you looking at the right prices? Part 1. Total Cost of Ownership I often hear from my clients that Open Source Software costs less...
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IBM named leader in 4 Gartner Magic Quadrants
Last month Gartner had named IBM a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms. Now I have more good news to share. IBM is now a Leader in a total of four Gartner Magic...
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Updates to the license model for WebSphere App Server
Today IBM has announced two important updates to the WebSphere Application Server licensing: New One Year Term License for all editions of WAS Removed restriction to the clustering for WAS Liberty...
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Tomcat or WAS Liberty Profile?
Java Web application developers now have new option with the newly published beta of the WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile. The nicest thing about this is that unit testing your Java...
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What is your application server of choice?
Current market share numbers from IDC, Forrester, Gartner, etc. all rely on revenue from the sale of licenses and support. However it would be interesting to measure the true install base of the...
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Migrating from Spring to JEE6
I’ve met a number of customers who are using Spring framework instead of the J2EE 1.x – mostly prior to JEE5. In the past there were number of good reasons to do so, including ease of development,...
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Not a joke – IBM named market share leader by Gartner in 8 out of 11 categories
I thought I wont post any articles on April’s Fools Day, but this one is too good to pass up, and sorry, this is not a joke and is not even funny. According to the latest Gartner report and related......
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Which app server is best for consolidating unpredictable Java workloads?
In the last couple of months I have done quite a bit of business travel – spent few weeks in Russia and Japan (travel photos). One of the subjects that came up often in discussions with customers was...
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Competitive sessions at the IBM InterConnect 2015 conference
Next week is the week of the IBM InterConnect Conference 2015. This is the first year when IBM combined three conferences – Pulse, Impact, and Innovate into single conference covering Mobile, Cloud,...
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Audio recordings for WAS and MQ competitive sessions from the InterConnect...
In the last couple of days I recorded a clean audio for both sessions I presented at the IBM InterConnect 2015 conference and posted recordings to youtube. I inserted the recordings into the slideshare...
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