This IDC study analyzes trends from customer and partner deals announced in the second half of 2008 for various segments of middleware. The listing of deals contains data by vertical, region, customer size, and market segment.
"In the second half of 2008, business-to-business middleware contained the largest collection of announcements compared with previous documents, which showed strong purchasing from process automation middleware," according to Maureen Fleming, program director, Business Process Management and Middleware.