This IDC study provides 2005 vendor shares and a 2006?2010 forecast for the application server software platform markets. In addition, this study assesses the growth impact of several trends, including:

"Despite all of the efforts made by different vendors to migrate customers off of mainframes, the legacy portion of the application server software market continues to be very healthy. Making distributed application servers robust enough to replace legacy software will fuel innovation over this forecast period," according to Maureen Fleming, program director for IDC's Business Process Integration and Deployment service.