The popularity of number two, WebSphere, was based on its user-friendliness, coupled with compatibility and cost issues. Silverstream's Application Server 3.7 came off well in all criteria, but shares the same problem as the number four, Windows...
The IBM Z800 mainframes will run Linux, Websphere Application Server, DB2 database and Tivoli software. The company will then be in a position to replace 4,000 Microsoft Exchange clients with Bynari, an open-source email application.
The new WebSphere version supports web services technologies based on the latest Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standard. The application server and its companion development toolset, WebSphere Studio Version 5, is geared toward providing the...
Less than 30 per cent of IBM’s ISVs work exclusively with WebSphere and the figures for BEA are probably not dissimilar. Siebel has two completely different versions of its product, one for .Net and one for WebSphere.
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.
IBM now offers Gluecode's software as a free product called WebSphere community edition. O'Grady said Oracle could benefit from MySQL in the way that IBM has from its acquisition of Gluecode, a company that commercialises the open source Geronimo...