The Impact of Research on Middleware Technology

The middleware market represents a sizable segment of the overall Information and Communication Technology market. In 2005, the annual middleware license revenue was reported by Gartner to be in the region of 8.5 billion US Dollars. In this article we address the question whether research had any involvement in the creation of the technology that is being sold in this market? We attempt a scholarly discourse. We present the research method that we have applied to answer

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ICSE
• Authors: Wolfgang Emmerich, Mikio Aoyama
• Keywords: Communication Technology Market, ICSE 2007, Middleware License Revenue, Middleware Market, Software Engineering