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Article: United Kingdom: BEA gets last laugh on Oracle app server.
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- TendersInfo
- Article date:
- July 3, 2008
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Byline: mohammed05
In Oracle's world nothing changes, everything stays the same and no products ever die. Except those things that get "converged" or downgraded. Among them, Oracle's Application Server that, in the wake of Oracle's USD 8.5 billion acquisition of one-time rival BEA Systems, is losing out to BEA's WebLogic Server.
Future versions of WebLogic will include additions from Oracle's own app server such as coherence for in-memory grid capabilities and TopLink for object relational mapping. Things aren't so rosy for BEA's two portals, however. The WebLogic and AquaLogic portals will "evolve" to ...