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IBM WebSphere Application Server Family: Flexible Infrastructure for Today's Business World

Overview Today's organizations face a tough set of challenges. Markets around the world have become increasingly volatile. Competition is more intense. Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures demand revisions in business plans and the IT infrastructures that support them. And IT departments have to keep doing more-and better-with budgets and resources that are already stretched to the limit. To meet these critical challenges, your organization needs much greater flexibility in its business models and business processes. For IT, a flexible infrastructure has become essential to capitalize on changing market opportunities and to manage costs in the face of increased budgetary pressures.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Infrastructure Management, Application Servers, Service-Oriented Architecture, Application Development

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