Gartner predicts that Web services will drive the middleware market to $7 billion in 2005, up from $5.7 billion in 2004. IBM continued to dominate the application integration and middleware market in 2004, with 37.2 percent marketshare: BEA Systems (7.2%) and Fujitsu (6.3%) are big blue's closest competitors. continue
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