A once-profitable market for a key piece of e-commerce software is cooling, forcing big software makers to rethink their strategies. In the past three years, BEA Systems, IBM, Oracle and Sun ...

Hewlett-Packard plans to attack BEA Systems and IBM in the market for software that runs e-business transactions by giving its product away for free. Analysts say HP is hoping to make inroads into the ...

Sun Microsystems is attempting to gain popularity among developers in the emerging Web services market by giving away a crucial piece of e-business software. Sun plans to give away an updated basic ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. last week announced an upgraded application server that will support multiple operating systems, raising the ante on an effort to broaden the use of its middleware beyond ...

BEA Systems held a wide lead in the Unix and Linux portions of the application server software market in North America in 2003, but its overall revenues in this market shrank by 4.3 percent while ...