IBM HELPS EASE WIN 2000 INTEGRATION; INDUSTRY'S LARGEST PORTFOLIO OF 2000 SOLUTIONS PLANNED.IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) announced initiatives to help companies integrate Windows 2000 applications into the enterprise. IBM, a leading provider of Windows 2000 solutions, will offer development software and technical support at no charge to business partners who are building Windows 2000 applications for connected enterprises. The offering of software and support is designed to ease Windows 2000 integration with other critical business systems inside an enterprise or supply chain. Independent software developers can take advantage of industry- leading software from IBM and Lotus to build a secure, scalable infrastructure for their Windows 2000 applications. The Windows 2000-ready software delivers enterprise-level messaging, collaboration Working together on a project. See collaborative software. , application integration, Java development, and data management capabilities. The development offering includes: * IBM DB2(a) Universal Database, Version 6.1 * Lotus Domino(a) Release 5 * Lotus Domino Designer(a) Release 5 * IBM MQSeries(a) Version 5.1 * IBM WebSphere(a) Application Server * IBM Developer Kit and Runtime Environment A configuration of hardware and software. It includes the CPU type, operating system and any runtime engines or system software required by a particular category of applications. See runtime engine. for Windows, Java Technology Edition, Version 1.1.8 * IBM VisualAge VisualAge was the name of a family of computer integrated development environments from IBM, which included support for a few popular (and not so popular) computer programming languages. Early history VisualAge was born in the IBM development lab in Cary, North Carolina. (a) for Java, Version 3.0.2 * IBM Communications Server See network access server, modem server, terminal server and communications controller. (operating system) Communications Server - IBM's rebranding of ACF. , Version 6.1 Business partners can register for the not-for-resale development software and receive downloads at no-charge via IBM's PartnerWorld for Developer's web site, http://www.developer.ibm.com. The software offerings will be available for download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. beginning March 31, 2000. A version of WebSphere with Windows 2000 support will be available for download in April. |
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