Mike Piech is senior director at Oracle with responsibility for Oracle Fusion Middleware products: Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Coherence, Oracle JRockit, and Oracle Tuxedo. He joined Oracle as part of the BEA acquisition, prior to which he spent seven years running product marketing at Dorado Corporation, which builds a WebLogic-based cloud solution for mortgage banking.
Application servers, those dependable workhorses that run most enterprise
Java applications, are rarely a hot topic of conversation these days. As a
technology category, the application server appears to be fairly
"established" and that the focus has moved elsewhere in the stack, but
appearances can be deceiving.
In fact, much remains to be done at the application server layer. One area
ripe for innovation is the ability for application server instances to work
together to enable more rapid deployment of new applications and hardware
while at the same time improving the utilization of underlying physical
resources. In contrast to the traditional
one-app/one-app-server/one-OS/one-machine architecture, a new approach has
emerged with multiple application servers pooling ... (more)
Mike Piech is senior director at Oracle with responsibility for Oracle Fusion Middleware products: Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Coherence, Oracle JRockit, and Oracle Tuxedo. He joined Oracle as part of the BEA acquisition, prior to which he spent seven years running product marketing at Dorado Corporation, which builds a WebLogic-based cloud solution for mortgage banking.
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