Frustration at the lack of development of the Java application server market was clearly one of the motivations for Sun Microsystems Inc to take matters into its own hands and buy NetDynamics Inc. Application servers, as web shops know, are where they action is. Most organizations choose Netscape, Microsoft or Apache web servers (Apache is more popular for those who don’t want support) and already have database servers. The application servers is where the e-commerce and interface stuff is kept. NetDynamics’s software creates Java applications and middle tier software for linking web client systems to back-end databases and applications.
