<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest News from WEBSPHERE JOURNAL</title><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/</link><description>Latest News from WEBSPHERE JOURNAL</description><copyright>Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media Inc.</copyright><generator>WEBSPHERE JOURNAL</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 22:46:00 EST</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest News from WEBSPHERE JOURNAL</title><url>http://res.sys-con.com/section/6/wsdj-mag-logo-145.gif</url><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>IBM Acquires InfoDyne to Create Platform for Market Data Delivery</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/556030.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/556030.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/556030_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IBM announced it has acquired InfoDyne. InfoDyne specializes in high-speed platforms and data feed connectors which combined with IBM's WebSphere technology will help clients extend transactional integrity to low-latency environments. Financial details were not disclosed. InfoDyne provides software that is designed to enable competitive trading firms and other venues to process exploding data volumes at microsecond response rates. InfoDyne's market data delivery platform and rich feed handler portfolio take data from hundreds of sources and deliver it in a standardized format; helping customers to control escalating data feed costs.]]></description></item><item><title>SOA Software Announces Integrated SOA Governance for IBM WebSphere</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/536118.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/536118.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/536118_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[SOA Software announced that it has certified IBM WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus as Governed Service Platforms. This allows customers to use WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere ESB to implement and enforce governance policies for enterprise services providing reporting data to enable a closed-loop audit process as part of their enterprise SOA.]]></description></item><item><title>Oracle&apos;s Sales Don&apos;t Cut It</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/529237.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/529237.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/529237_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Oracle, the center of much Wall Street anticipation this week, came in $100 million and change shy of expectations on the revenue front but gave the punters the 30% increase in profits they expected. It took a nasty 7% hit and passed the tailspin on to the rest of tech as a skittish Wall Street worried about the fate of spending. CFO Safra Catz said that Oracle had some difficulty closing deals towards the end of the quarter, which finished February 29 - some deals took longer, some simply didn't close. She blamed it on customer caution.]]></description></item><item><title>Information Builders to Sell iWay Universal Adapter Suite for IBM WebSphere Products</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/525208.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/525208.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/525208_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[iWay announced that it will sell more than 35 iWay adapters developed on and built for IBM WebSphere technology. This offering opens market opportunity for iWay Software and extends IBM's connectivity ecosystem offering customers additional cost-effective application integration options by delivering consistent adapter technology based on IBM's WebSphere Adapter Toolkit.]]></description></item><item><title>Setting Up a File Server with WebDAV on IBM HTTP Server</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/503878.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/503878.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/503878_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IBM HTTP Server (IHS) is a derivative of Apache with extensions to support the IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS). It is different enough that you can't simply interchange it with the plain Apache if you have to support WAS applications. Nevertheless, it is still an Apache derivative, and therefore it supports Apache modules and extensions and behaves more or less as expected.]]></description></item><item><title>IBM WebSphere Application Server Shatters Industry Benchmark</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/502789.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/502789.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/502789_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IBM announced that WebSphere Application Server, a key building block for services oriented architecture (SOA), shattered a popular industry benchmark for scalability and performance by more than 33 percent using technology that costs half the price of the competition.]]></description></item><item><title>Wall Street Journal Says Yahoo! Will Reject Microsoft&apos;s Offer, Seeking $57BN</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/498577.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/498577.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/498577_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Quoting an unidentified source, the Wall Street Journal is now saying that Yahoo intends sending Microsoft a letter Monday rejecting its $44.6 billion offer as 'massively undervaluing' the company and ignoring the risk to Yahoo if the regulators ultimately turn thumbs down on the merger. According to paper's source, the Yahoo board wants at least $40 a share.]]></description></item><item><title>Praise For IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition Installation</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/497450.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/497450.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/497450_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Rarely do I get to have as much fun as this morning. I decided to download and install the new IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition V2.0.0.1 to one of our blade servers. The install was flawless and the instructions were exceptional. Before starting the server and deploying the XAware 5.0 WAR, I updated the startup.bat file with my JRE_HOME=%JRE_5_HOME% and added the XAWARE_HOME environment variable to the file, geronimo.bat. (set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% '-Dxaware.home=%XAWARE_HOME%').]]></description></item><item><title>IBM Profits Rise 24% Year-on-Year in the 4th Quarter</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/484839.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/484839.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/484839_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[When IBM releases its fourth-quarter results on Thursday, it is confidently expected that - aided by the plunging dollar which in itself is reckoned to have increased revenue by 6% - revenue rose 10% to $28.9BN. As a result of its preliminary fourth-quarter results being issued, shares in the company climbed more than 8% today in premarket trading.]]></description></item><item><title>Opal Future Technologies Named to the Top 10 of InfoWorld 100 Most Innovative Corporate Solutions for 2007</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/475470.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/475470.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/475470_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Mainsoft Corporation announced that Opal Future Technologies Inc. was named to the top ten of IDG's InfoWorld 100 Most Innovative Corporate Solutions for 2007. The annual awards honor IT projects that demonstrate the most creative use of cutting-edge technologies to further their business goals.]]></description></item><item><title>Pioneering Research in Semiconductors Opened New Directions in Electronics and Photonics</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/472201.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/472201.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/472201_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Sandip Tiwari, a Charles N. Mellowes Professor of Engineering at Cornell University, has been named as the recipient of the 2007 IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award, recognizing his pioneering contributions to nano-crystal memories and quantum-effect devices and their critical role in greatly increasing storage capacities for mobile communications, computing and other applications, while still keeping the devices compact in size. The IEEE is the world?s leading professional association for the advancement of technology.]]></description></item><item><title>ESRI&apos;s Java Developer Webinar on December 13</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/469253.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/469253.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/469253_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[ESRI will host an online seminar this month that will help Java developers learn about how to build custom GIS Web applications using ArcGIS Server. Building Applications with ArcGIS Server Using the Java Platform will air on ESRI's Training and Education Web site at www.esri.com/lts on December 13, 2007, at 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and 3:00 p.m. (Pacific standard time).]]></description></item><item><title>OpenJFX Script Compiler Now Downloadable</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/466932.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/466932.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/466932_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Today, I'm going to explain how to save some steps by downloading the latest build of the OpenJFX Compiler rather than building it on your machine. If you decided not to build the compiler because it looked like a hassle, then relax - this is a lot easier. Just follow the instructions on the PlanetJFX page entitled How to Download the Latest Compiler Build Instead of Building It.]]></description></item><item><title>WebSphere Portal-Based Healthcare Site for 27 Million Members</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/463962.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/463962.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/463962_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['Healthways offers a menu of services, and we needed a modular, 'plug-and-play' architecture in which we could easily turn capabilities on and off to meet each health plan sponsors' criteria,' said David Jarmoluk, director of enterprise architecture for Healthways, a leading provider of comprehensive health and care support solutions, as IBM announced yesterday that - with its help and that of its business partner Mainsoft - Healthways has crossed the .NET-Java EE software standards divide to deploy a multimillion patient health and wellness portal.]]></description></item><item><title>Terracotta Creates Worldwide Partner Network</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/412321.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/412321.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/412321_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Terracotta, a provider of infrastructure software for enterprise Java high availability and scalability, has announced the Terracotta Partner Network, a group of existing and new highly skilled integration partners that will work closely with Terracotta to deliver the benefits of Terracotta?s Network-Attached Memory to Java applications worldwide.]]></description></item><item><title>Terracotta Makes High-Availability and Scalability Easy for WebSphere Developers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/409743.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/409743.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/409743_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Writing custom serialization code may seem easy to start with, but maintaining it can quickly turn into a nightmare, especially as your application grows and you have more and more state to manage. Keeping track of what has to be serialized and moved around the Web cluster can be a real pain and can really get in the way of adding new features and improving existing ones.]]></description></item><item><title>HP&apos;s Dirty Tricks Look Practiced: Fortune</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/383672.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/383672.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/383672_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Fortune magazine has been poking around those court-sealed charges that HP bought Dell's printer plans from a former senior Dell executive before Dell entered the printer market and got a previously mum Dell to say that 'The more we look into it, the more concerned we become.']]></description></item><item><title>SOA Web Services - Prolifics Creates WebSphere Widgetry for TIBCO RV</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/380162.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/380162.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/380162_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Prolifics announced that it will begin distributing a brand new product designed byits SOA Practice Manager, Kadeer Beg. WebSphere Message Broker Extender for TIBCO RV provides TIBCO RV message handling capability, enhancing IBM WebSphere Message Broker beyond IBM WebSphere MQ messaging into a morecomplete brokering solution.]]></description></item><item><title>Minimizing the Impact of Change with IBM WebSphere</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/366296.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/366296.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2007 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/366296_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Designing and developing effective Business Process Management (BPM) solutions in conjunction with IBM's WebSphere MQSeries Workflow product involves an examination and thorough understanding of the multiple facets involved as the technical solution is being built and the business processes that serve as the foundation pillars of the execution of the business process model. In light of our fast-paced society and ever-demanding customers, rapidly interconnected markets, and wave of market globalization, it's essential for businesses to conduct their transactions efficiently.]]></description></item><item><title>Credit Suisse: HP&apos;s BEA Systems Takeover Is Wishful Thinking</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/376325.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/376325.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 17:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/376325_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[BEA may ultimately end up being acquired, however, we think that path will at the very least take some time and won't be as easy one might hope. While we believe BEA Systems ought to be part of another company, we aren't sure the recent disappointing Q1 is enough to push the management team and board to engage in any serious discussions. Our sense is that it will take a concerted effort by shareholders to move any process forward]]></description></item><item><title>Amazon Pays Off IBM To Settle Big Patent Suit</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/374828.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/374828.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 12:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/374828_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Remember last October when IBM sued Amazon claiming the great dot.com had knowingly built its business model on the back of IBM's patents? Well, the pair patched up their difference the other day outside the courtroom after Amazon paid IBM some unsung amount of money. There is now a long-term IP cross-license in place with Amazon remarking that 'IBM's patent portfolio is the largest and strongest in the IT industry' and that 'our license to its portfolio, and specifically to its web technology patents, gives us greater freedom to innovate.']]></description></item><item><title>dBlue - An Advanced Enterprise Information Search and Delivery System</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/43255.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/43255.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 17:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/43255_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[One of the biggest complaints we hear about many company Web sites, from customers and employees alike, is that it's too hard to find  what you need. At IBM, with 2.5 million Internet pages and more technical content than any single entity, including the Pentagon, that's no surprise. A new IBM advanced information search and delivery system for  the IBM support site (www.ibm.com/support) is expected to solve this problem. Code-named Digital Blue (dBlue), this project is a digital  interface to IBM customers. The result of two years of work and five patentable inventions, dBlue is now available to IBM customers.]]></description></item><item><title>Nastel&apos;s Smart Plug-in for WebSphere MQ Available to HP Software Customers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/367117.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/367117.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/367117_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Nastel Technologies, a leading provider of performance monitoring and management software for integrated applications and an HP Platinum Partner, announced that its Nastel AutoPilot WebSphere MQ (APWMQ) Smart Plug-in (SPI) for HP Software is available through HP, effective immediately. The Nastel SPI for WMQ has been certified by HP for its functionality and integration with HP Operations Management Software.]]></description></item><item><title>Parasoft Introduces AJAX Testing Solution at AJAXWorld</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/350569.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/350569.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/350569_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Parasoft Corporation provides software development organizations an automated infrastructure to control and improve the process of developing business applications. Parasoft announced today the availability of Parasoft WebKing 6.0, an automated Web testing suite that provides comprehensive testing and analysis of Web sites and Web applications to ensure they meet the reliability, security, and performance goals necessary to support business requirements effectively.]]></description></item><item><title>Proto Software and Kapow Technologies Announce Partnership at AJAXWorld</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/350607.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/350607.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/350607_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[AJAXWorld Conference -- Kapow Technologies and Proto Software have announced that they are partnering to deliver 'Mashups that Matter' to the financial services community. Kapow Technologies adds an API to services ranging from legacy apps to web-based social media. Using Proto to process, analyze, and present intelligence from these services gives users a system no 'off-the-shelf' package can match. Together, Proto and Kapow Technologies bring Enterprise 2.0 to the trading floor in a way that reduces costs and increases profits.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX On The Hudson: It&apos;s &quot;All Aboard!&quot; at AJAXWorld</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/350239.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/350239.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/350239_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[What's the connection between Web 2.0, AJAX, Rich Internet Applications and one the tri-state's most luxurious yachts for private parties and corporate events, The Majestic Star? The answer is: AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East in New York City. Because, next week, all Gold Pass holders at the conference who have RSVP'd will be welcomed aboard the four-deck yacht by SYS-CON Events, producers of the sell-out AJAXWorld Conference & Expo series.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAXWorld 2007: How AJAX Is Improving Communications and Quality of Life Inside the U.S. Air Force</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/344439.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/344439.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/344439_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[With over 800,000 members, many of whom are stationed around the world, the U.S. Air Force is dedicated to providing the best communications experiences possible. By implementing the latest RIA and AJAX techniques, the USAF has been advancing real-time communications to enable servicemen to easily and instantly interact with their friends and family.]]></description></item><item><title>Yahoo! Guru Eric Miraglia on &quot;The Intentionality of Wisdom in the AJAX Age&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/344427.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/344427.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/344427_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[We invent terms like Web 2.0 and AJAX to define the things that are moving past us, reign them in, get a handle. But we still get caught up in the rush. Stand up in a room with 30 engineers and ask them: what do you need in order to do your job at a higher level, to produce a product your deeply proud of, one that will win in the market and change the world. They will always tell you the same thing: Time. Resources. A better product design. This talk is about the intentionality of wisdom. Right now is the time of AJAX; its time will pass.   The ingredients of excellence in developing rich internet applications for the browser are, by contrast, timeless. We'll harness some of the compelling voices of the industry and put together a cookbook for success, one that we can use to create the real change in our organizations that is required if we want to engineer next-generation Web-based products of which we're deeply proud.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX for IBM WebSphere Platform Released</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/324796.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/324796.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/324796_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The AJAX for IBM WebSphere Platform Early Program is an optionally installable product extension for IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 6.1 and WebSphere Application Server Community Edition that offers targeted, incremental new features that can make Web applications running on WebSphere Application Server easier to use.]]></description></item><item><title>Tidal Software Names Jim Green and Shahan Soghikian to Board of Directors</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/330487.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/330487.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/330487_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Tidal Software, a leading provider ofintegrated application scheduling and performance management software,today announced the appointment of Jim Green, CEO of Composite Software andformer CTO of webMethods, and Shahan Soghikian, managing director ofPanorama Capital to the Tidal Software Board of Directors.]]></description></item><item><title>IBM Lotus Notes Goes Mobile With emoze</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/325690.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/325690.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/325690_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Today at Lotusphere 2007, emoze, a subsidiary of the Emblaze Group , announced the introduction of the industry's most secure and comprehensive solution that enables corporate and personal users to send and receive emails to and from a mobile phone or other mobile device. emoze pushes emails, calendars, tasks and contacts to mobile devices as soon as they are sent, delivering secure, real-time synchronization anytime, anywhere. emoze software is free for individual users and simple to download from the emoze website (http://www.emoze.com/) , register and use. All emoze users need a data package from a mobile service provider.]]></description></item><item><title>IBM&apos;s Developer Community Achieves Record Growth in 2006 and Advances Open Source Development</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/317962.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/317962.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/317962_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that itsdeveloper community has grown at an unprecedented rate this year, withnearly 1,700 worldwide developers joining its growing community per day.Throughout the year, developerWorks noted several trends, as illustrated bythe high demand for content and community-based resources.  Java, ServiceOriented Architecture (SOA), Web 2.0 community offerings, and growth inemerging markets were among the key themes this year.]]></description></item><item><title>Linux-on-Mainframe Apps Up 100%: IBM</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/317754.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/317754.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/317754_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IBM counted noses and says there are now nearly 1,000 Linux applications that run on its mainframes, a 100% jump over this time last year, a fact it attributes to virtualization and basic mainframe performance. IBM recently reported a 390% jump in mainframe sites running Linux. It says more than 60% of its mainframe revenue is now coming from new workloads, with approximately 20% of the revenue and 30% of the MIPS coming from Linux customers, which is what has the ISVs interested.]]></description></item><item><title>Amazon Countersues IBM, Citing WebSphere</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/317545.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/317545.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/317545_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[In response to the whopping great suit that IBM filed against Amazon.com in October, the one that lays claim to God knows how many hundreds of millions in damages for alleged infringing a handful of utterly fundamental e-commerce business methods patents it now holds - like on online advertising and online selling per se - Amazon last week countersued claiming that IBM's multibillion-dollar WebSphere widgetry and its information management services and products have willfully trifled with two of its patents for years.]]></description></item><item><title>IBM Helps Disabled Users Get More From Assistive Technology, on More Computer Platforms</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/314356.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/314356.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/314356_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[such as editing functions, hyperlinks, charts andmenus.  These features can be found in rich browser applications based onDHTML, AJAX, and WAI-ARIA, and desktop applications based on theOpenDocument Format.]]></description></item><item><title>IBM, Top Universities Announce New Open Software Research Projects</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/314467.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/314467.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/314467_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IBM and seven leading U.S. universities announced new open software research projects under a program designed in conformance with the Open Collaboration Research Principles, a set of guidelines announced previously to help promote an open approach to overcome university-industry intellectual property challenges.]]></description></item><item><title>IBM Announces New Updates</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/308598.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/308598.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/308598_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IBM has announced new updates to of all kinds its Netcool/Precision and Netcool/Proviso software, bringing service providers performance management and availability management for MPLS networks. MPLS enables 'Quality of Service,' bringing high-priority handling for voice and other traffic types while reducing network costs by consolidating network traffic.]]></description></item><item><title>IBM Introduces Telecom Security for the Digital World</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/308592.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/308592.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 08:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/308592_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IBM has unveiled security hardware, software and services to help meet the security needs of the user, enterprise systems and the core of large-scale Internet Protocol (IP) carrier networks.  The Telecom Core Infrastructure Security Solution monitors and manages not only the health of network but the traffic itself, through a single, integrated system.]]></description></item><item><title>IBM Posts Double-Digit Revenue Growth in External Disk Storage Systems, According to IDC</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/308320.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/308320.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2006 13:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/308320_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker shows IBM's external disk storage revenue growing significantly faster than the overall storage marketplace for third quarter 2006, growing revenue 14.3 percent year-to-year, compared to the overall external disk storage marketplace, which grew at 9.9 percent. IBM increased its revenue share year-over-year, and according to IDC, IBM grew revenue faster than Dell, Hitachi, and HP, all of which lost revenue share.]]></description></item><item><title>IBM Tivoli Automated Software Installation Technology Speeds Deployment of Microsoft Windows Vista</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/307831.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/307831.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2006 04:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/307831_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IBM has announced new provisioning software that will help accelerate the deployment time for Microsoft Windows Vista customers. The new IBM software reduces the time it takes to manually deploy or upgrade a computer, including an operating system deployment, to less than a minute.]]></description></item><item><title>IBM Achieves Major &quot;Linux On POWER&quot; Milestone</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/307978.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/307978.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/307978_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IBM announced the delivery of the 2,500th Linux application available for POWER -- extending the flexibility of one of the world's most pervasive processor architectures. The application, Sybase Unwired Accelerator, quickly and securely extends corporate applications to mobile environments.]]></description></item><item><title>Texas DIR Awards IBM a Contract for State Data Center Services That Offers Significant Benefits to the State</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/306448.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/306448.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/306448_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[A newly signed agreement between the Texas Department of Information Resources and IBM delivers expanded services and lower costs for data center services. The seven-year contract is valued at $863 million with three optional one-year extensions. After taking all new and retained costs into account this will save Texas $25 million in 2008-2009 and $159 million over the base contract period.]]></description></item><item><title>Grundfos Group Chooses IBM Information Server to Deliver Customer, Material and Supplier Information on Demand</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/306443.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/306443.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/306443_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IBM has announced that Grundfos, one of the world's leading pump manufacturers for industrial purposes, heating, water supply and wastewater, has selected IBM Information Integration Solutions to create an integrated information management environment that delivers precise and trusted customer, material and supplier information to its business processes and SAP applications.]]></description></item><item><title>IBM to Acquire Vallent</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/306442.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/306442.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/306442_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IBM has announced it has agreed to acquire Vallent Corporation, a privately held company based in Bellevue, Washington with more than 400 employees. Financial details were not disclosed. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and is anticipated to close in the first quarter of the 2007 calendar year.]]></description></item><item><title>CA Releases Wily Introscope 7.1</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/306451.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/306451.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/306451_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[CA announced the availability of Wily Introscope version 7.1, a new release of advanced solution for monitoring and optimizing the performance of business-critical web applications, portals and SOAs. The latest release of CA's Wily Introscope offers advanced integration with CA's Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Unicenter NSM) to create a single source of comprehensive visibility into network, infrastructure and application performance.]]></description></item><item><title>Lawson Introduces Lawson 9 For IBM System i Platform</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/306410.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/306410.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/306410_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Lawson Software strengthened its commitment to the IBM System i community worldwide by releasing Lawson 9 on the IBM System i platform, including Lawson 9 upgrade programs and services for existing System i Lawson customers in services industries. Since the late 1970s, Lawson has been building and optimizing applications to run on IBM's 'all-in-one' business computing system and its predecessors.]]></description></item><item><title>WebSphere Community Edition Gaining Market Share Nearly Three Times as Fast as Rival JBoss</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/304598.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/304598.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/304598_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[According to Evans Data Corporation, in a single year WebSphere Application Server Community Edition gained 16 points of market share with Eclipse developers, versus only a 6.6 share gain for JBoss.]]></description></item><item><title>IBM to Manage Critical Apps Hosting for Achieve Healthcare Technologies</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/302941.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/302941.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2006 01:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/302941_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IBM will manage hosted applications for Achieve Healthcare Technologies, which provides clinical and financial software systems to the eldercare industry. Last quarter, Achieve picked IBM to manage hosting for their end-to-end applications and improve reliability, flexibility and increase system access for its clients.]]></description></item><item><title>Banco Sabadell Signs IBM for 7-Million Euro, 9-Year Agreement</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/302943.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/302943.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/302943_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Banco Sabadell, one of Spain's largest banking groups, and IBM have announced a 7-million euro, 9-year contract for IBM to manage the bank's electronic e-mail platform. The agreement is part of PROTEO, Banco Sabadell's IT renovation program, which aims to position the bank as a leading innovator in the European financial services industry through IT. Banco Sabadell will benefit from a guaranteed quality of service and a flexible IT infrastructure geared toward future growth.]]></description></item><item><title>IBM Wants To Own the Cluster Space</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/299039.htm</guid><link>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/299039.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://websphere.sys-con.com/read/299039_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IBM, currently number three in clusters behind HP and Dell, is determined to be number one by the end of 2008, according to Wendy McGee, program director of its Cluster Solutions Brand & Business Unit.  Bearing down on its mark, IBM has been growing at 29%.]]></description></item></channel></rss>