IBM Integrates Transaction Server Technologies Into WebSphere Product Family.PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--September 21, 1998-- Extended Family Delivers on IBM's e-business Vision, Simplifies Customer Choice Common Programming Model Unifies 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) Application Servers IBM today announced the integration of its industry-leading transactional server technologies into one family of offerings. The WebSphere(a) family, along with Lotus Domino, represents the industry's most complete range of Web application server environments that support business applications from simple Web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. through enterprise-scale transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. . The expanded WebSphere family integrates the Web server, transaction processing, Web commerce and distributed component technologies of IBM's WebSphere Application Server, TXSeries(a), Net.Commerce(a) and Component Broker(a) products. This lineup of transactional application servers makes e-business a reality, regardless of where companies are in that process. It provides an easy growth path as business needs change and companies' Web presence intensifies. "IBM is adding its leading transactional capabilities to the WebSphere family to support the diverse requirements of today's networked companies," said Alfred Spector Alfred Z. Spector was a researcher and software executive at IBM, he left in 2006. For several years, he was in charge of all of IBM's software research. He is now Vice President of Strategy and Technology within IBM's Software Group. , general manager of marketing and strategy, IBM Application and Integration Middleware A redundant term for "middleware." The concept of middleware is integration. See middleware. . "From content publishing to round-the-clock online business, IBM has a solution that can grow and support the full range of applications, from the simplest to the most robust." Common Programming Model WebSphere and Lotus Domino(a) are fundamental to IBM's overall Web strategy, which includes support for the industry-standard Enterprise JavaBeans See EJB. (specification, business, programming) Enterprise JavaBeans - (EJB) A server-side component architecture for writing reusable business logic and portable enterprise applications. EJB is the basis of Sun's Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE). (b) (EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) A software component in Sun's J2EE platform, which provides a pure Java environment for developing and running distributed applications. EJBs are written as software modules that contain the business logic of the application. ) programming model. This unifying model in WebSphere and in other IBM application server offerings simplifies and reduces the cost of developing e-business applications. IBM offers a broad range of application server technology including Lotus Domino, DB2(a) Universal Database, WebSphere, CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without (a), IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. (a), OS/390(a) and OS/400(a). All of these servers will share componentry with WebSphere and can be used as part of a connected enterprise solution that incorporates WebSphere. IBM SanFrancisco Business Components provide a collection of application development frameworks, components and partner solutions for the WebSphere application servers. The servers are also unified by a common programming architecture based around EJB, common development tools around the 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) family, and common systems management around Tivoli solutions. WebSphere's Web server capabilities, transaction processing, commerce functionality, common programming and tools make it the most comprehensive and robust solution bringing value to e-business applications. "When IBM announced WebSphere Performance Pack and Application Server it demonstrated its full commitment to delivering a high-end application server based Refers to hardware or software that runs in the server. Contrast with client based. on Java and Open Standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced ," said Tim Sloan, Director, Internet, Aberbdeen Group. "WebSphere instantly challenged the proprietary approaches all the competitors currently ship. With today's announcements IBM has made it easy and safe for MIS organizations to deliver transaction based data to the Web. It has also delivered a roadmap to Net.Commerce customers for open participation in the Java world, and provided them access to the wealth of application solutions the open world promises." WebSphere Application Servers The WebSphere application servers are at the center of the WebSphere product line, a comprehensive solution for developing and implementing networked applications. The product line also includes WebSphere Performance Pack, Web facilities management The management of a user's computer installation by an outside organization. All operations including systems, programming and the datacenter can be performed by the facilities management organization on the user's premises. software that supports rapid growth of high-volume Web sites, and WebSphere Studio, an integrated set of Web development tools. WebSphere Application Servers are a tiered set of offerings, including: WebSphere Application Server, Standard Edition -- provides companies with an open, multi-platform, standards-based, Web server deployment platform and Web site management tools. It offers customers a solution to deploy e-business Web sites across a range of operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. platforms including AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. (a), Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. (b), Sun Solaris(b), OS/400, OS/390 and OS/2(a) Warp Server The server version of OS/2 from IBM. Warp Server combined OS/2 and Lan Server into one package that was introduced in 1996. Warp Server was generally highly praised and well suited as a Lotus Notes server. . WebSphere Application Server, Advanced Edition -- expands on the capabilities of the Standard edition to provide enhanced support for scaling Web sites into secure, transactional e-business applications. The Advanced edition connects Web applications to existing databases and host-based transaction systems, and offers sophisticated tools that simplify deployment of distributed component-based applications. WebSphere Application Server, Enterprise Edition -- enhances the Advanced edition and offers a robust solution that grows e-business applications into mission-critical enterprise environments, leveraging existing skills and IT systems. It combines TXSeries, IBM's world-class distributed transactional a pplication environment, with the full distributed object and business process integration capabilities of Component Broker. All applications currently running on TXSeries or Component Broker will be fully supported by the Enterprise edition. IBM Net.Commerce, which is IBM's strategic offering for electronic commerce applications, is part of the WebSphere family and will assume WebSphere branding in 1999. As a result, current Net.Commerce customers will benefit from the broad range of functionality of the new WebSphere Application Server family. "Charles Schwab's Web trading application is based on IBM's proven transaction processing middleware," said James Chong, vice president, architecture and planning, Charles Schwab. "IBM's plans to integrate its middleware offerings give customers like us complex technologies in one simple solution. IBM's strategy gives us the ability to write applications to one programming model -- Enterprise JavaBeans -- while also providing a guarantee that our existing applications will run on the entire family of WebSphere application servers." Additional Information Additional information on the WebSphere product line may be found on the Web at: http://www.software.ibm.com/websphere. WebSphere application servers include software developed by the Apache Group for use in the Apache HTTP Server The Apache HTTP Server, commonly referred to simply as Apache, is a web server notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web. Apache was the first viable alternative to the Netscape Communications Corporation web server (currently known as Sun Project http://www.apache.org. Additional information about NetObjects tools can be found at http://www.netobjects.com. Charles Schwab is the largest provider of online brokerage services. Schwab.com is one of the largest e-commerce sites in the world, handling more than $2 billion in customers' securities transactions each week. For more information visit http://www.schwab.com About IBM IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM Software offers the widest range of applications, middleware and operating systems for all types of computing platforms, allowing customers to take full advantage of the new era of e-business. The fastest way to get more information about IBM software is through the IBM Software home page at http://www.software.ibm.com (a) Indicates trademark or registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. (b) Java, JavaBeans, Sun and Solaris are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Microsoft and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. |
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