15.2. Strong Industry Participants

Aside from HP, IBM, and Microsoft, there are several other companies that offer products in the web services arena. Not all of these, however, have the same level of product completeness or maturity as the industry leaders. These vendors have a strong offering in a related area, and thus, they could, in theory, pose strong competition for the leaders in the industry. In the next discussion, some of these companies and their product offerings are described.

15.2.1. BEA Systems WebLogic Collaborate

BEA Systems is known for delivering an industrial-strength implementation of Sun’s J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) standard. A few years ago, BEA Systems started to dominate the Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) market ...

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