IBM Unveils Program To Attract Five Million Developers To WebSphere Software Platform.Business & High-Tech Editors SOMERS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 12, 2000 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) today announced a program designed to attract five million developers to the WebSphere(a) software platform. IBM anticipates it will reach that goal by the end of this year. IBM's WebSphere software platform is a complete portfolio of Web infrastructure software that helps companies at each stage of e-business development, from startup to handling high volume Web transactions typical of business-to-business (B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business ) e-marketplaces. IBM's WebSphere software platform is a good choice for developers because it has high market penetration Noun 1. market penetration - the extent to which a product is recognized and bought by customers in a particular market penetration - the act of entering into or through something; "the penetration of upper management by women" , is experiencing high year-over-year growth and provides developers with a customizable, scalable e-business software foundation. "This program is all about getting developers whatever they need to build powerful e-business applications on top of the WebSphere software platform," said Valerie Olague, director of WebSphere Software Platform Marketing, IBM Software. "Clearly, the success of WebSphere will be determined by the strength of the developer community IBM builds around it." To encourage developers to use WebSphere, the IBM marketing program will leverage advertising, promotional events and free offerings for developers including trial code, technical support, users' group A users' group (also users group or user group) is a type of club focused on the use of a particular technology, usually (but not always) computer-related. meetings, education and certification. Developers who will benefit from the program include: -- developerWorks (www.ibm.com/developerWorks), a free on-line resource that enables developers worldwide to easily tap into a wealth of tools, code, tips, news, tutorials, and how-to articles -- VisualAge Developers' Domain (www.ibm.com/vadd), a free on-line resource that provides downloads and CDs of IBM's VisualAge for Java application development offering, as well as supporting components, tools, and how-to information to help programmers easily develop Java applications -- Lotus Domino developers who are skilled in Lotus Script See LotusScript. Language programming -- Developers who use application development tools from Microsoft, Sun and BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. -- Developers who use application development tools from IBM partners Existing resources that IBM will leverage as part of the program to attract developers include: -- developerWorks (www.ibm.com/developerWorks), a free on-line resource that enables developers worldwide to easily tap into a wealth of tools, code, tips, news, tutorials, and how-to articles -- VisualAge Developers' Domain (www.ibm.com/vadd), a free on-line resource that provides downloads and CDs of IBM's VisualAge for Java application development offering, as well as supporting components, tools, and how-to information to help programmers easily develop Java applications About IBM IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with more than 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate in·no·vate v. in·no·vat·ed, in·no·vat·ing, in·no·vates v.tr. To begin or introduce (something new) for or as if for the first time. v.intr. To begin or introduce something new. . IBM Software offers the widest range of applications, middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a and 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. for all types of computing platforms See platform. , 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. Information about the complete WebSphere software platform is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/websphere. (a) Indicates trademark or registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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