The boom in application servers in recent years raises the question of whether an entire new tier of computing infrastructure has been created. Application servers separate systems functions from ...

Competitive pressure from open-source software is threatening to redraw the Java application server landscape, just as it has shaken up the operating systems realm. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

Beginning Monday, customers considering Azul Systems' idea of running Java programs on specialized, centralized machines will be able to factor price into their deliberations. The Mountain View, Calif ...

Technological trends are often short-lived and have no lasting effect. New programming languages show up every year, ...