IBM Unveils Translation Server Software.
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) Corp. launched the IBM WebSphere Translation Server, designed
to enable enterprises to provide Web pages, e-mail messages and chat
conversations in multiple languages, in real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. , and to help remove
language as a barrier to global communication and e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. . The
WebSphere Translation Server is intended to allow for the creation and
global distribution of Web content without the need for special Web
pages or separate Web infrastructures. It also enables chats in multiple
languages for both internal and external communications. The software
supports bi-directional text Some writing systems of the world, notably the Arabic (including variants such as Perso-Arabic or Nasta'liq) and Hebrew scripts, are written in a form known as right-to-left (RTL), in which writing begins at the right-hand side of a page and concludes at the left-hand side. translation between English and French,
German, Spanish and Italian, as well as from English to Chinese (both
simplified and traditional), Japanese and Korean. Also, as an integrated
component of IBM's WebSphere and Lotus family, the Translation
Server can help any size business increase its global reach with a
limited investment.
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