Contrast that installed base with the 35,000 customers IBM claims currently to have for just its web application server, WebSphere. Domino and WebSphere are the main IBM/Lotus contributions to the package.
The initial phase of Parlay applications has been oriented toward letting people more easily provision communications services through the web, like conferencing or notification," said Marty Slatnick, software group executive for IBM's...
RulesPower decided to build its software specifically for IBM's WebSphere Java application server because it did not want to spend its limited budget on integrating its software with many other products.
Historically, applications have needed to be reworked to enable them to make the most out of a grid but new additions to middleware platforms (such as improvements to Oracle's Application Server platform and IBM's latest version of its WebSphere...
SOA is an evolutionary approach that does not require a rip-and-replace of infrastructure and applications but does generally require buy-in from the business to gain the major benefits, such as functional component reuse, efficient use of assets...
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.