The jewel in the crown of IBM's WebSphere solution is its application server, the software platform for integrating disparate applications, and the foundation of web services deployments. BEA Systems has hit back at arch-rival IBM's latest...
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...
Harvey also hinted that the latest round of jobs moving offshore will not be the last and said that over the course of 2004 Aviva will continue to assess what future application offshore operations could have to other parts of its business.
Those areas include content management, business integration, business intelligence, data-centric automation, development tools, security, storage, pervasive computing, portals, Linux, storage, IBM's zSeries mainframes and "competitive win back...
Others highlighted the fact that there are only a few vague references to technology in the campaign, despite the heavy reliance on IT to cut government costs and improve efficiency through initiatives such as the £6bn NHS IT programme.
The new system includes a computer-aided design application called Catia and the Enovia process management tool - both of which are made by Dassault Systèmes - as well as IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM Rational Rose Data Modeler.