IBM attributed its success to improved partnering efforts and growing strength of integrated platforms. “It’s an outflow of our focus around partners over the past year,” said Scott ...

IBM's WebSphere franchise led the overall field with about $2.5 billion in revenue for 2004, up 8.7 percent year over year. Its market share inched up to 37.2 percent from 36.3 percent in that time ...

As the two giants buy up other providers, IT may see higher costs -- and the cost of switching providers is often even worse Is the middleware market becoming a duopoly, with users locked in to either ...

If you've ever been to a bullfight in Madrid, you know it's a savage, bloody affair that brings out waves of nasty human emotion. The cascade of cruelty begins with the picadores who seek to enrage ...

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Ruthven says: ‘Looking at the application environment dealing with databases, user log-on, security and messaging middleware vendors ended up with various scenarios and a big mess.’ Each developer has ...

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

Playing to his company’s software strengths, IBM Chairman Lou Gerstner Monday pronounced Phase I of the e-business era to be over, and that Phase II will see the rise in strategic importance of ...

IBM plans to muscle into an emerging market for scaled-down integration software, a product category analysts say is poised for growth. The company is developing integration software, called Services ...

Big Blue plans to augment its WebSphere Java-based server software, creating an "enterprise service bus" that can translate among different communications methods. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

IBM today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Cyanea, a provider of software that monitors and manages the performance of Web-based business applications. Cyanea is a privately held ...

Without middleware, your spouse will leave you, your crops will wither, and your dog will die. Do I have your attention now? Good. Forgive the hyperbole but mddleware's subliminal role in enterprise ...