Today, Oracle announced that Oracle® WebLogic Server, a component of Oracle
Fusion Middleware, together with Oracle Database 11g running on an HP
ProLiant DL785 G6 server, achieved a world record single-node result with the
SPECjAppServer2004 industry standard benchmark(1). This result surpasses the
best IBM WebSphere SPECjAppServer2004 single node result by nearly 7
times(2). Oracle WebLogic Server with Oracle Database 11g achieved 9,455.17
SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard (jAppServer Operations Per Second). The Java
Application Server was running on a HP ProLiant DL785 G6 with a Six-Core AMD
Opteron(TM) 8439 SE 2.8 GHz processor and used HP StorageWorks 70 Modular
Storage Arrays for external storage and HP ProCurve networking switches for
connectivity. Oracle Database... (more)
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers (EAS) positions
Oracle in the leader's quadrant. (1) Oracle's EAS technology includes Oracle
WebLogic Server, which is available together with related Oracle application
grid technology as part of Oracle Weblogic Suite. The Gartner Magic Quadrant
positions vendors within a particular market segment based on their
completeness of... (more)
As part of the Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware 11g launch, Oracle has announced
the release of Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g, which includes Oracle WebLogic
Server, the world's highest performance application server, as well as Oracle
Coherence, Oracle JRockit, Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle Enterprise Manager.
Oracle WebLogic Sever 11g is the strategic application server for Oracle
Fusion Middlew... (more)
IT organizations are constantly faced with the challenge to produce
high-quality solutions with a lower total cost of ownership. With the growing
recognition that open source software provides quality, stable solutions,
migrations of existing enterprise applications to products such as JBoss
Enterprise Application Platform have become increasingly popular. Planning
for such a migration i... (more)
As the complexity, immediacy, and scope of enterprise processes increase, so
does the risk of failure. Comprehensive, proactive management of
next-generation information processes and services is critical. Traditional
application management tools are inadequate to manage next-generation
cross-application and, eventually, cross-enterprise business processes and
services because they are s... (more)