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To: Dan O. who wrote (6431)	11/25/1998 4:17:00 PM
From: Mighty_Mezz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15094

Speaking of articles on middleware. 11/21/98 - E-Commerce Boosts IBM Middleware Sales Nov 21, 1998 (Tech Web - CMP via COMTEX) -- CHICAGO -- The e-business crossroads for IBM is software, particularly middleware. The company's e-business campaign, begun earlier this year -- and included $40 million on Internet advertising alone -- is paying off. "Our database and MQSeries have grown 100 percent year to year," said William Reedy, vice president for middleware. "It's driven by business exploding off the Web." Reedy spoke during the week at the Renaissance Consulting Electronic Commerce Leadership conference here, where he said the rise of electronic commerce has breathed new life into millions of lines of code and hardware -- and into IBM. The digitizing of commerce and the growing imperative for businesses to not only communicate within the enterprise but also through the Internet with customers and suppliers has driven the need for middleware. IBM's e-business initiatives include Web-enabling these products and supporting all platforms, including Java. "We're not just a one-trick pony," said Reedy. "We own a lot of the other tricks, too, and we have to support all of them." Middleware allows programs to communicate with each other across all IBM platforms, Windows, VMS, and a variety of Unix platforms. Big Blue's middleware products include MQSeries, DB2, and CICS. MQSeries is message-oriented software that allow applications to communicate across operating and hardware platforms using various networking protocols. DB2, a universal database, and CICS, a customer information control system, were originally developed to work with mainframe computers. CICS controls the interaction between applications and users, and lets programmers develop screen displays without detailed knowledge about specific terminals. It provides terminal routing, password security, transaction logging for error recovery, and activity journals for performance analysis. According to the company's estimates, 20 billion transactions are processed every day on IBM hosts. Reedy said an IBM survey of 44,000 customers shows Internet transactions are doubling every six months. IBM leads its closest competitors, BEA and Computer Associates, in transaction-processing systems in terms of overall installed base; is the market leader in groupware; and stands second to Oracle in database software, according to International Data Corp. During the week, Oracle rolled out Oracle 8ix, its flagship database, and Monday at Comdex, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison introduced the "raw iron" concept of using the database as a key part of a network server. Reedy said Oracle is aiming at Microsoft, not IBM. "Oracle is declaring war on Microsoft, but they do that every week," he said. "Microsoft aspires to get into this space, but they don't have the assets that Oracle and IBM have built." Oracle controls 40 percent of the database market and had revenue of $3.4 billion last year, while IBM's database business has 13 percent market share and revenue of $1.5 million, according to IDC. Microsoft is No. 5 in the market, after Informix and Sybase, with a 4.5 percent share. -0- Copyright (C) 1998 CMP Media Inc. tscn.com I highlighted MQSeries because HDIE has already deployed their OM3 Message broker with MQSeries V.5 for Windows NT. hublink.com Sure would be nice if we could see a press release with IBM in the headline. <GGG>