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.

Chuck Phillips reports that the boom in application servers now raises the question of whether an entire new tier of computing infrastructure has been created.

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems touted the server-based version of its Java software at a press conference here Tuesday, just two weeks before Microsoft is set to release rival technology. Five ...

The vulnerability appears in versions of the Java Runtime Environment that Sun has released for servers running Windows, Linux and Sun's Solaris operating systems.

BEA systems and Sun Microsystems advanced their Java application servers last week, while Oracle pushed its Java development environment for grid enablement. BEA offered customers a path to ...