BRIC coun­tries have the tremen­dous op­por­tu­ni­ty to start out with no lega­cy, no old-style in­fra­struc­ture like ap­pli­ca­tion servers, no mes­sage bro­kers, no en­ter­prise ser­vice bus (ESB) or oth­er non­sense like that - the typ­i­cal stuff big en­ter­prise ven­dors will try to trick you into (if they do: just ig­nore them - you will be bet­ter off).

In­stead, BRIC coun­tries have the lux­u­ry of be­ing able to pick a light-weight mod­el such as JEE with­out ap­pli­ca­tion serv­er to achieve un­lim­it­ed scal­a­bil­i­ty at vir­tu­al­ly no cost, us­ing com­mod­i­ty hard­ware and soft­ware.

With the re­cent eco­nom­ic crises in both the US and Europe, it is the BRIC coun­tries that are help­ing out (in­stead of the oth­er way around). The fu­ture will in­volve a lot more BRIC. And with that, a lot more Atomikos.

Western com­pa­nies that want to be as ag­ile, pro­duc­tive and com­pet­i­tive as the BRIC coun­tries: what are you wait­ing for? Call us to get an in­tro­duc­tion and mi­gra­tion path for your lega­cy.

If you have been pur­chas­ing the 'En­ter­prise Ar­chi­tec­ture' port­fo­lio from the big O then guess what: you've paid way too much for some­thing you don't need, and which will over­load your (way too heavy) hard­ware even more.

We've been claim­ing this for years so it is about time to show it: how to re­place Tuxe­do ap­pli­ca­tions with open source and free soft­ware. Com­ing soon to this site!

Stay with us...

PS Tuxe­do is a reg­is­tered trade­mark owned by Or­a­cle

In a re­cent post we've an­nounced our end-to-end sup­port pro­gram. We are glad to be able to add Post­greSQL to the list of sup­port­ed JDBC ven­dors - thanks to and via our Post­greSQL sup­port part­ner 2ndQuad­rant.

This blog post de­scribes yet again how you can use best-of-breed com­po­nents to do the job.

In par­tic­u­lar, it de­scribes in­te­gra­tion of Atomikos as well as all of the oth­er cool li­braries that to­geth­er out­per­form the ap­pli­ca­tion serv­er in sim­plic­i­ty, cost and per­for­mance... Good job!

I would like to ded­i­cate this post to all of our users who have been kind enough to give us their feed­back via our on­line sur­vey (you know, the one you re­ceive by email once you reg­is­ter for down­load).

First of all, thank you very much for your feed­back - this type of in­for­ma­tion is in­valu­able for any busi­ness, es­pe­cial­ly a start-up like us. Be­ing ag­ile as we are, any in­con­ve­niences found can be quick­ly cor­rect­ed in our prod­ucts and our busi­ness mod­el.

So what are the re­sults so far? Well, I won't keep you in sus­pense any longer so let me just out­line the sum­ma­ry:

• About 90% of the re­spon­dents would feel bad about miss­ing our prod­ucts in fu­ture projects
• About 60% have rec­om­mend­ed our prod­ucts to oth­er peo­ple

Up to you to de­cide if this is good or bad - but we cer­tain­ly are pleased with that re­sult! Once again, a big thank you to our com­mu­ni­ty!