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GIGA Group: Merging TXSeries and Component Broker
into WebSphere Family Has "Real Significance"
GIGA Group reports: "In a move that has real significance in both technical
and business terms, IBM has moved to unify its disparate transactional-application
server platforms under one product family. ... The complexity and cost of using
these server products will be greatly reduced." Read the full report at http://www.ibm.com/software/ad/analysts/giga-ib3.html
GIGA Group: IBM's Offerings for S/390
Developers Have "Java on the Side"
GIGA Group's report about IBM offerings for S/390 developers says
"IBM is positioning VisualAge forJava and VisualAge Generator as its strategic
tools for building applications that access MVS servers from other platforms, such
as UNIX or Windows". It says Java is "a language that is rapidly gaining
acceptance". Read the full report: http://www.ibm.com/software/ad/analysts/giga-ib6.html
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