In Microsoft's case, this is the .NET platform (comprising servers, operating systems and development tools); in Lotus', it's the IBM WebSphere platform (comprising servers, database, development tools and management).
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...
At its Lotusphere conference last month, IBM said the first Lotus product that will be rewritten for WebSphere is a lightweight email application called IBM Lotus WorkPlace Messaging. Each of the reworked Lotus products will use the WorkPlace...
IBM is taking that existing product and re-branding it as Lotus Workplace Content Development and making it available immediately. Aptrix technology was designed to work with current Lotus Domino, WebSphere and DB2 Content Manager environments.
At its Connect 2004 customer conference in San Francisco, PeopleSoft said it will integrate its enterprise applications with IBM's WebSphere middleware line, including IBM's Java application server, portal, and business process integration software.
IBM's Workplace software is built around its Java-based WebSphere Portal software, which delivers applications and documents from servers to PCs or handheld devices running Windows or Linux. Ambuj Goyal, IBM's general manager of Workplace, Portal...