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John Rymer
Vice President, Principal Analyst Forrester Research
As an analyst, John primarily contributes to Forrester's offerings for the Application & Program Management professional. He is a leading expert on the market for application platforms and infrastructure software for building and running applications. Included in his coverage are the Java/J2EE application servers from BEA, IBM, JBoss, Oracle, SAP, and Sun Microsystems and the equivalent portions of Microsoft's .NET platform. John also covers the business rules platforms market.
Presentations
Life in a Time of Consolidation: The Platform Market in 2009-10
IBM and Oracle are now the big dogs in Java middleware, and Microsoft's enterprise onslaught is generating double-digit .NET growth in a down economy. Game over, right? Not at all. All three vendors must overcome their inherent complexity and high costs of their suites in a market that increasingly rewards platforms with strong fit-to-purpose, high configurability, low costs. Open source is growing as a factor in the market, not shrinking. This speech will outline the directions, drivers, and likely outcomes of the platform market in this time of vendor consolidation.
