Application integration and middle market generated $6.7 bln in 2004; IBM, BEA and Oracle led

IBM continued to extend its lead in the overall application integration and middleware market over BEA Systems and Oracle, capturing above 37% of the worldwide market in 2004, according to Gartner. BEA Systems was #2 with 7.2%; Oracle was #3 with 4.4%, and Microsoft was #4 with 4.3%. The overall application integration and middleware market was worth $6.7 bln in 2004, which is up 5.8% over 2003.