Abstract
This IDC study is a review of major 4Q04 announcements from BEA, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, TIBCO,
and webMethods, the leaders in the application deployment software market, along with a high-level
view of the six vendors 2005 strategies in that market and other suppliers that compete with the
top 6. The application deployment software market is the aggregate of the application server and
integration server software platform (ASSP and ISSP) markets with the markets for Web server
software (WEBM), transaction-server (TSM), message-oriented middleware (MOM), and all associated
adapters/connectors as defined in IDCs Software Taxonomy, 2005. This
study does not include detailed worldwide or North American market shares for the 75 vendors in the
application deployment software market analyzed by IDC in 2004; such share information will be
forthcoming during 2005 along with 2003-2004 growth rates and a detailed updated software-revenue
forecast of this market for the years 2005-2009 in North America. Analysis of the North American
demand-side research that supports the forecasts drivers and inhibitors has already been
distributed to clients; a description of the model based on that demand-side data will be released
in the first calendar quarter of 2005. Various other deliverables elsewhere in IDC (primarily
available as pivot tables) will highlight selected North American and worldwide application
deployment software market subsegments by function and operating environment. Detailed information
about specific geographies is available from local IDC offices around the world.
"Stack coupling, the importance of application intellectual property, standard
architectures, partnering, and industry/role distinctions are now sorting themselves out in the
application deployment software market as real differentiators," said Dennis Byron, vice
president of Business Process Automation and Deployment Software research. "Those suppliers
that are not choosing or cannot participate in all permutations are choosing sides in the debate and
hoping they bet correctly; IDC demand side data already suggests strongly which chose correctly and
which did not." | 
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