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IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Tibco lead the market for Web services platforms in 2005. Innovation in this market is an indicator of a vendor's impact on the software market as a whole and of the vendor's role in enterprises' service-oriented architecture implementations. The portal product market is growing, but the number of vendors in the market is shrinking. Portal products are purchased as point products, but suites now garner a growing amount of portal product sales. The Horizontal Portal Product Magic Quadrant shows interesting changes in vendor positions. Innovation in technology and in business models continues to keep the enterprise application server market competitive and expanding, despite growing commoditization of basic J2EE application servers. New players continue to emerge to offer alternatives and to aim at the leaders' weaknesses. The second-quarter 2005 Magic Quadrant for business-to-business gateways summarizes 15 vendors' vision and execution in the B2B gateway market. Use the Magic Quadrant as part of a more-detailed assessment process that weights the criteria in the context of your company's unique requirements. Gartner has developed high-level evaluation criteria for the business-to-business gateway vendor Magic Quadrant for 2005. These criteria will be used to evaluate vendors developing, marketing and selling B2B gateways. As of April 2005, more than 26 suppliers offer enterprise service buses, integration suites and application platform suites that can serve as the "backbone" middleware infrastructure for application integration and service-oriented architecture applications. As it matures, the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition application server management market is becoming increasingly competitive, and the wide spectrum of J2EE stakeholders places varied demands on vendors. The Leaders quadrant has new entries in this update. Programmatic integration servers enable a lightweight approach to providing a service-oriented architecture on top of legacy applications. Due to market consolidation, the number of vendors in the 2005 Magic Quadrant is shrinking. |
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