ABSTRACT
The application server market has been building slowly since the Object Management Group began to finalize and publish the Common Object Request Broker Architecture specifications. Application servers have been implemented by a wide variety or organizations. BuildPoint.com is an online marketplace that allows buyers and sellers to negotiate for and procure construction products and services online; provides online bid solicitation management and lead generation; and offers financial services including insurance and lending. This is made possible with BuildPoint’s Open Trading Platform, an E-commerce platform comprised of Web servers, application servers, and database servers. FoliQuest International N.V. is on the leading edge when it comes to providing unique Internet-based sales services to the financial industry. Allaire Corporation, founded in 1995, claims to have introduced the industry’s first Web application server, ColdFusion®. Art Technology Group, publicly traded and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was founded in 1991 as a provider of Internet products and services.
