Customers considering company's idea of running Java programs on specialized machines can now factor price into deliberations. Photos: Java power in a pool Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

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 ...

Open-source software has already shaken up the operating systems business. Now, Java server software makers are feeling the heat. Analysts say it's difficult to measure the extent to which open-source ...

What is the best application server? The answer depends on what an enterprise is looking for. Compare Apache Tomcat to these four offerings to see which Java app server fits. Continue Reading ...

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