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!