Application development professionals have better platform options to choose from than they might think. In this Forrester Research report, you'll learn about factors you should consider as application platforms evolve, four criteria that application development professionals should examine when selecting application server products, and more... 

Lucid Imagination brings market-leading expertise to open source enterprise search, and can help any organization quickly design and optimize search solutions based on Lucene and Solr. 

This paper is intended primarily for senior IT managers responsible for enterprise architecture, application development, and application operations. Managers evaluating middleware solutions will gain a deeper understanding of how JBoss Enterprise Middleware products are developed and why they offer an ideal platform for the development... 

Watch this 10 minute video and discover what Oracle compatibility means for your business from a technical, and skills point of view. This video also offers multiple low risk strategies for using Postgres Plus Advanced Server to lower your Oracle costs and utilize the advantages of the most advanced open source database available. 

This paper provides some ways to think about your enterprise search requirements from both technological and economic perspectives, explains why a Lucene/Solr-based approach can be optimal, and describes how Lucid Imagination can help you to design, develop, and deploy the necessary search solution. 

This IDC White Paper is based on research data collected at a dozen customer sites in the United States, Canada, and Europe, all with mixed server platforms, to find the technical and business outcomes from deploying cross-platform Linux solutions on IBM servers. This paper presents the key findings of a return on investment (ROI) analysis. 

Consolidating and virtualizing application, web, and database tiers for enterprise Oracle® Siebel 8.0 CRM applications is one approach to help reduce costs and enhance flexibility. Read this paper to learn about Sun's platform for the Oracle Siebel CRM software stack. 

The current economic climate is forcing more systematic thinking about costs in general, including those associated with overall complexity and the security and resiliency of large distributed infrastructures. These trends intersect in powerful ways; a new wave of computing is gathering momentum as a result. And open source is playing a major role. 

This whitepaper will explore best practices for green IT and how Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) can help companies achieve green IT processes for software application management. Specifically, ALM solutions can help IT organizations reduce energy consumption and costs associated with multi-site software development. 

This white paper explores how to troubleshoot common application errors, including crashes and functionality failures, for greater application performance and an optimized end-user experience. 

Sun's built-in, no-cost Logical Domains (LDoms) virtualization technology allows applications to effectively leverage these processors. This white paper describes how LDoms can be applied in different scenarios to increase application scalability and system utilization. 

Bringing together innovative software, server, and storage platforms, the Sun and Infobright solution provides an easy to manage, enterprise-class, highly scalable data warehouse with low total cost of ownership. 

Organizations that do not have an active management strategy are often left with significant server sprawl issues. This expert webcast discusses a three pronged approach for overcoming these issues and explores different options for virtualization on Linux platforms.