Application servers: from features to futures

Through 2006/07, increasing application server uniformity around J2EE, .Net, and Web services specifications will drive fundamental market changes.

Increasing product homogeneity, substitutability, price erosion, and vendor consolidation will establish new procurement patterns - with the balance of power shifting from vendors to end users.

Includes:

• Commodi-what?
• Leveraging standards will require rigorous design
• Poor n-tier application design will limit harmonisation benefits
• Presentation layer: full and rapid harmonisation
• High-end transactional applications: gradual harmonisation
• Bottom line
• Business impact