Oracle mainly competes with IBM, Hewlett-Packard in the hardware business, IBM and Microsoft in database and middleware software business and SAP in the applications software business.
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This company is a provider of middleware and infrastructure software.
Hence, applications, middleware and database software all go hand-in-hand.
SaaS software applications such as customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning are deployed alongside database and middleware software.
This inexpensive solution paves the way for an entirely new generation of middleware software and applications to be developed in an open source environment.
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In short, Oracle becomes the indirect beneficiary of SaaS applications market growth since these applications require database and middleware software to be deployed on servers.
Oracle also announced plans to launch 4 new hardware products by Sun, which will help it drive sales of its database and middleware software, which is optimized for the new SPARC super clusters.
The Platform will include middleware for managing software updates and interrogating and fixing problems on the client.
But in the business world, the shift to the cloud has been complicated greatly by the incumbency of traditional on-premises systems and infrastructure and applications, plus all the myriad layers of complexity and cost that were required to string together disparate software and servers and networks and middleware and so on.
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Application software licenses and middleware licenses contribute just under 25% each to our company valuation.
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"As a mobile software developer and middleware vendor, Resco customers are enabled to use our products to develop MonoTouch, and now Mono for Android applications for Android and Apple devices, " said Michal Sartoris, senior developer at Resco.
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The company combines hardware and software to deliver high-performance server adapter products and application acceleration middleware for faster performance.
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Middleware is a portfolio of software products used to build and deploy software applications.
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Enterprise software, including database, application, and middleware offerings account for more than 75% of its Trefis price estimate.
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Some of its popular middleware tools are Oracle Weblogic Server, Oracle Tuxedo, and Java Software (acquired through the Sun acquisition).
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Cable's solution to this is middleware software originally called OpenCable Application Platform ( OCAP) and more recently renamed to simply: OpenCable.
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Wind River (nasdaq: WIND - news - people ) specializes in so-called device software, the fast, small operating systems and middleware that go into all sorts of noncomputer smart devices, from digital video recorders to industrial robots and the Mars Rover.
With its middleware Biddle software (based on the same DVB-GEM spec as OCAP, and also available to cable operators) included on a Blu-ray disc, the company claims its ready to deliver an "interactive TV service" consisting of VOD, web browsing, e-mail, social networking access or nearly anything else you can imagine.
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And the software giant must turn over the information needed to make other companies' middleware operate with Windows.
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