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 ...

Any talk about the demise of the application server is hyperbole at best. However, the emergence of containers, the popularity of microservices and the availability of software that allows ...

A common punchline is that middle children are often overlooked when compared to their oldest and youngest siblings. In the world of software-defined vehicles and rapidly advancing adjacent industries ...

While Oracle and Sun Microsystems are hailing Oracle’s purchase of Sun as a big boost for Java, others are not so sure. Some with stake in the Java ecosystem are questioning what kind of control ...

Akka is an open source, event-driven middleware project. It is designed to allow developers to write simpler, correct concurrent applications using Actors, STM and transactors. Akka is an open source, ...

Agency information technology managers are searching for better ways to integrate not just the applications and legacy databases of far-flung offices, but also the up-to-the-minute wireless ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. confirmed today that it’s discontinuing several middleware products and will instead address that market segment through partnerships with other vendors, including Microsoft Corp.