IBM's WebSphere application server platform is too full of proprietary technologies to allow real interoperability with other systems according to UK messaging technology firm SpiritSoft. The firm today criticised Big Blue for bundling together old...
Applications written for IBM's WebSphere Telecom Application Server middleware will be able to connect to public network services via Fujitsu's GeoServe gateway. The two companies today said that by the end of the year they plan to achieve...
Bringing Rational into the IBM fold will also give more momentum to IBM's open-source Eclipse project, which aims to foster interoperability among different Java-oriented tools, analysts said. IBM and Rational have been strategic partners since...
While Rational's flagship modelling environment, Rose, is a standalone product that runs in its own integrated development environment (IDE), the company's next generation modelling tool XDE is based on IBM's Eclipse open tools integration framework.
The two companies will also work to optimise PeopleSoft's applications to run on IBM's DB2 database and migrate PeopleSoft's development tools to the IBM-backed Eclipse open-source development tool program.
SOA ERP: This approach offers mid-size and some large companies an entry to SOA via extensions to enterprise resource planning application software. The Aberdeen Group benchmark report Enterprise Service Bus and SOA Middleware surveyed more than...