To BEA, for sure.

Software companies can now have fewer programmers and more "business consultants" as part of their team, cutting down costs. Want to know how?

APPLICATION servers have changed the way software development is done, according to BEA Systems, the vendor of, among other products, the Weblogic application server.

Earlier, programmers wrote code that was 70 per cent infrastructure and only 30 per cent or less application code and business rules, says Srikant S. Rao, Country Manager, BEA, quoting a Standish Group study.

The application server looks after concerns of network communication, load balancing, scalability, getting data across multiple platforms, …