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InfoQ Homepage News Article: WebSphere CTO Jerry Cuomo on WebSphere Trends 2009

Article: WebSphere CTO Jerry Cuomo on WebSphere Trends 2009

In an exclusive InfoQ article, IBM’s WebSphere CTO Jerry Cuomo outlines the 10 top technology direction he envisions for the WebSphere product line in 2009. The list consists of the following items:

  1. Business Mash-ups
  2. Business Rules
  3. Middleware-as-a-Service
  4. Rainmaker
  5. Extreme Scale
  6. WAS.NEXT
  7. Restful - Agile
  8. DataPower-lution
  9. POWERful Middleware
  10. Industry-savvy Middleware

Business Mashups refers to the idea of personalized, Web 2.0-style portals for business users; after the acquisition of iLog and AptSoft, IBM is busy integrating them into a consistent Business Rules strategy. Middleware as a Service refers to hosted Middleware, both supporting company-internal as well as public clouds. Rainmaker is Cuomo’s label for IBM’s general cloud support, including pre-built WebSphere AppServer images. Extreme Scale refers to high-performance transaction servers; WAS.NEXT is the next generation of IBM’s WebSphere Application Server, exploiting OSGi to enable a modular deployment. Cuomo also highlights REST support in WebSphere products such as CICS, WebSphere MQ, WAS, WSRR, Commerce, Portal, Process Server.

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