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WebSphere goes to China
This week's news |
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INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
Raise the Red Flag: WebSphere goes to China
By David Gewirtz
Technology sometimes makes for strange bedfellows. Such is most definitely the case when you look at IBM's new support for the WebSphere platform on Red Flag Linux.
Raising the Red Flag
If you're not familar with this particular "distro," it's not surprising. Red Flag Linux is the official distribution for the government of the Peoples' Republic of China. Red Flag Linux was created in part because the Chinese government is reputedly deeply uncomfortable with Microsoft's massive domination of the operating system market in their country.
One of the concerns China has with Microsoft's operating systems is that they can't see inside the code. Frankly, it makes a lot of sense for a government to be concerned with running their systems (especially national security-related systems) under a closed operating system from a foreign country. An article by Doc Searls in the Linux Journal stated:
The purpose of Red Flag was to reduce domination of the Chinese computer market by Microsoft's Windows operating systems. The best way to do that, was to require "full transparency in terms of underlying code", said Matei Mihalca, Head of Internet Research, Asia-Pacific at Merrill-Lynch. (Interesting noun, transparency. A little different than "open" and "free". I have a feeling we'll be hearing more of it.)
Apparently, this particular Linux distribution has growing desktop support, and is becoming more widely available within China. Now, with the support of WebSphere on Red Flag, we're seeing more and more inroads into this new distribution.
To learn about IBM's support of this distro, tap your pointer here.
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WEBSPHEREPOWER NEWS CENTER
This week's news
Want to get the very latest WebSphere and IBM news? The WebSpherePower News Center is updated every day with news of product releases, industry info, tips, techniques, and pointers to great WebSphere and IBM resources on the Web. Here's this week's news:
CCF to J2C migration
This five-part series shows you how to migrate applications from the VisualAge for Java Common Connector Framework (CCF) to WebSphere Studio Java 2 Connector Architecture (J2C).
Branch transformation toolkit
This article is the third in a series of articles that describe design patterns for IBM Branch Transformation Toolkit for WebSphere Studio, formerly called WebSphere Business Components Composer.
WebSphere process choreographer concepts
This distance learning course will give you a brief overview of business processes using the WebSphere Process Choreographer in WebSphere Application Server Enterprise Version 5.
WebSphere business integration message broker
This article outlines some of the options for implementing WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker V5 in a highly available environment.
Everyplace connection manager handbook
This redbook targets Business-to-Employee (B2E) enterprise applications, but most of the scenarios presented apply to Business-to-Consumer (B2C) applications as well. In this redbook, you will find examples and scenarios showing ways to extend your enterprise applications to a broad range of mobile devices such as WAP phones, PDAs and laptops using wireless and dial-up connections.
Web Services for Business Integration
In this redbook, IBM discusses how Web service technologies can be used in combination with various components and products of the WebSphere Business Integration family.
IBM servers redefine standards
IBM has announced two new Intel-based servers with features that help lower the ownership cost of entry level servers. The new systems, the eServer xSeries 206 and xSeries 306 include new simple-swap Serial ATA drives and integrated management and data protection features never before available in entry level systems.
Discount on WebSphere
For a limited time, if you acquire an eligible new software license for IBM WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker for z/OS V5.0 and an eligible new software license for IBM WebSphere MQ Workflow for z/OS V3.4 on the same order, you can receive a 33% discount off the one-time charge of each software license.
developerWorks Live! Technical Briefings
The IBM developerWorks Live! Technical Briefings, that were such a success in 2003, have been expanded for 2004. The technical briefings, which include presentations and extensive demonstrations, will be free in various cities around the world in 2004.
WebSphere technical conference
IBM is hosting a Content Management and WebSphere Portal Technical conference from May 3-6 in Chicago. The sessions will be combined with the latest content management, and portal and collaboration solutions.
Enterprise Webcast
IBM is hosting a Webcast on March 17 that will show you how to save time, reduce costs and lower risk by using your existing skills, applications and data to deliver new e-business on demand solutions.
DB2 vulnerability discovered
IBM has released a fix for a DB2 vulnerability that could allow attackers to gain administrative privileges on systems running version 8.1 Enterprise Edition.
Lomboz goes Open Source
Lomboz, the Eclipse plug-in for J2EE/Web Services development, becomes Open Source as Eteration, the project sponsor, joins ObjectWeb, the consortium specialized in Open Source Middleware.
WebSphere Application Server/SQL management tool
Candle Corporation, an enterprise infrastructure management provider, has announced new performance optimization solutions for the entire IBM WebSphere Application Server environment. A significant upgrade to Candle's application server management offering, PathWAI Monitor for WebSphere Application Server V120 delivers a single solution for end-to-end diagnostics, tuning and performance management.
Developers not happy with new Java standard
The Java Community Process is backing a standard for creating Web apps at the presentation layer that gives Java developers a more Microsoft-like programming experience, with drag-and-drop buttons, frames, forms and other visual components. Some developers, however, say it adds complexity without providing much value.
WebSphere for z/OS V5 Connectivity
The Redbook draft shows you how to develop applications using JCA connectors, how to install the Resource Archive Repositories (RAR files) and different aspects of the connectors.
DB2 and WebSphere Portal Server
This IBM Redbook provides examples of the synergy between WebSphere Portal Server and DB2 Information Integrator in delivering portal solutions, and will include sample portlets exploiting SQL, UDFs, JDBC, and Web Services.
IBM to acquire Trigo Technologies
IBM announced it has agreed to acquire all the shares of Trigo Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of product information management middleware.
IBM's ISV strategy nets new accounts
ISVs say that IBM's promise to make a significant investment in helping ISVs locate and close business deals in the iSeries space is beginning to pay off.
Concurrent processing in EJB
Learn how JMS provides a solution for overcoming the restrictions you face when developing concurrent applications with EJB in this article on DevX.com.
Business integration for Domino with WebSphere
Part two in this series about Domino and WebSphere Business Integration dives into the technical details of how to build a business application solution using the WebSphere InterChange Server and the WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for Domino.
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IBM and Dassault Systèmes announced plans to further integrate Dassault Systèmes Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions and IBM middleware. Building upon the success of their 23-year strong partnership, the companies will further integrate IBM software products, such as IBM WebSphere and with the Dassault Systèmes' suite of product development and data management applications.
IBM denies EDS acquisition
IBM is denying reports that it has plans to acquire all or part of EDS' $21.5 billion IT services operation.
Consolidation sparks mainframe revival
Two recent deals with German firms, one for the implementation of 20 z990s, reflect how the economic demand to consolidate servers is driving sales of IBM's premier mainframe.
IT career expert
While it's true that experts expect a shortage of skilled mainframe workers, that doesn't necessarily mean jobs will be plentiful. One expert, however, has suggestions on how to make the skills shortage work in your favor.
Safesforce.com WebSphere app toolkit
Salesforce.com introduces Sforce Toolkit for IBM WebSphere, an on-demand application platform that helps programmers customize, integrate, and extend the company's Salesforce.com customer relationship management application via WebSphere Studio Application Developer.
Samsung joins IBM in semiconductor development
Samsung Electronics is joining semiconductor technology development partnership with IBM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and Infineon. The technology alliance will reinforce the IBM technology-based design point for next-generation logic technologies, providing an industry-wide platform for CMOS logic processes.
IBM, Sun to meet over open-source Java
Representatives from IBM and Sun Microsystems are to discuss IBM's proposal for creating an open-source version of Sun's Java technology.
Judge forces IBM to hand over Unix code
IBM was ordered to turnover the documents SCO says is vital to its charge that IBM copied Unix code into Linux.
Software upgrade costs irk mainframe users
Hardware is cheap. It's the software upgrades that are killing users, and forcing many onto other platforms.
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