IBM today announced its multibillion dollar software strategy for ebusiness in the form of an updated Websphere middleware platform. The actual products behind the launch are version 3.5 of the Websphere application server and 3 new software...
A Tivoli plug-in allows developers to monitor applications, a Domino plug-in enables developers to create integrated WebSphere and Domino applications and the DB2 plug-in will give developers the ability to build DB2 based applications for mobile...
The IBM Z800 mainframes will run Linux, Websphere Application Server, DB2 database and Tivoli software. By Rupert Goodwins Air New Zealand is replacing 150 Compaq NT servers with two IBM mainframes running Linux, saving the company a potential NZ...
The tools, features and plug-ins differentiate the vendors. IBM's WebSphere, BEA's WebLogic and Sun Microsystems' ONE Middleware Developer (formerly iPlanet) are currently the most widespread of these toolsets.
In this open world with open standards and open source the idea was that plug and play, mix and match, would rule. It would much rather install WebLogic than WebSphere because that reduces the risk that IBM will capture some of the services.
But after failing to make significant gains in the multibillion-dollar market, HP decided to pull the plug on the division. HP is specifically targeting IBM customers looking for an alternative to Big Blue's WebSphere Java server software line and...