Majitek Positioned In Visionaries Quadrant By Leading Industry Analyst Firm
29/Apr/2008
Majitek Positioned in Visionaries Quadrant by Analyst Firm in Enterprise Application Servers (EAS) Magic Quadrant 2Q08
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, April 29, 2008 – Grid Application Platform company, Majitek, today announced that it had been positioned by Gartner in the visionaries quadrant of its “Magic Quadrant” analysis of the Enterprise Application Servers (EAS) market.[i]
Majitek is the inventor of GridSystem one of the first commercially available XTP platforms, designed to provide dynamic high availability and massive scalability for Java-based applications. Extreme Transaction Processing (XTP) is an application style aimed at supporting the design, development deployment, management and maintenance of distributed transaction processing (TP) applications characterized by exceptionally demanding performance, scalability, availability, security, manageability and dependability requirements. These requirements, once reserved for the largest mission critical environments such as electronic banking or airline reservation systems, are now routine in most advanced SOA, Web 2.0 and SaaS implementations.
Rob Cumming, Majitek Director Strategy and Marketing said, "We are very pleased to have been positioned in the visionaries quadrant in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for EAS. We believe it clearly validates our prediction that mainstream enterprise application servers must evolve to satisfy extremely demanding requirements as the internet connects every person, system and device into a single dynamically changing environment."
Of the EAS space, Gartner said: "Users' requirements for products in this market are continuously changing. Formerly optional features (such as support of service-oriented interfaces and interoperability) have become essential, and formerly obscure innovations (such as grid orientation, microkernel-style plug-in and multitenancy) have become important commercial differentiators. Some features, regulated by standards bodies and available from most competitors, become near-commodity (that is, they support basic Web services protocols and APIs). Other features remain guarded vendor differentiators (such as XTP-oriented extensions)."
Majitek was evaluated across all eight Gartner product characteristics for completeness of vision, as stated in its April, 2008 report, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers, 2Q08 by Yefim Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Kimihiko Iijima and Raffaella Favata. The eight factors include Advanced service-oriented architecture (SOA) support, Event-driven architecture (EDA) support, Tracking the latest and most impactful Web innovations, XTP features, Innovation in programming models and the use of metadata, Innovation in administration/management technologies, Innovation in internal architecture and Support for SaaS-style deployment of applications (such as multitenancy, metering and other features).
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About Majitek
Majitek specialises in Grid Computing technologies and advanced Service Oriented Architecture. The company’s flagship Grid Application Platform increases performance, lowers cost and simplifies operation of complex software environments, bringing a new level of efficiency to Enterprise IT departments.
Majitek GridSystem is ideally suited as an underlying platform for complex software application scenarios such as Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Shared Services, Real-Time High Performance Computing, Federated Wide Area Networks, Device Sensor Networks, Content as a Service and Software as a Service.
Majitek is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia and has offices in Asia and the Middle East. For more information visit www.majitek.com
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
[i] Gartner “Magic Quadrants for Enterprise Application Servers” by Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Kimihiko Iijima, Raffaella Favata, April 24, 2008