Monday of the American time, "Lotus DevCon 2001" commenced at the Nevada state Las Vegas mirage hotel. Last year it was done at the Mariotte hotel which is in the San Francisco downtown, but, this year the meeting place was moved to the Nevada state Las Vegas.
It is different from November which it visits with COMDEX, Las Vegas of this season that the one step it comes out, does the hotel in ardor.
The sun micro systems, as for the player who such as Hewlett Packard has power, oracle and Microsoft, everywhere the spots increasing "Web service" conception, midst of the survival is, IBM has made the same strategy to May clear.
With latest DevCon 2001 Lotus development of IBM affiliation, in order the customers to be able to construct application quickly making use of Web service, the clear commitment that was verified (as for Lotus with Web service and wireless collaboration function to expansion) it is supported. The same company the occasion where IBM announces the Web service strategy to the middle of May in New York, had assumed that it keeps offering each function of collaboration, knowledge management, and e- learning as Web service.
At one time, as Lotus most software vendors so been, Notes/Domino as the package software where various functions are integrated it developed & it distributed, but, component conversion every of function is being advanced recently. It has been about to utilize Web service standard and, as the basis which connects the respective piece.
As for this being something which parallels to also the Web service strategy where IBM promotes, the enterprise customer and the developers the product of Lotus and IBM are the case that it reaches the point where it can integrate easily and quickly. With IBM, in order that the customer who utilizes Web service is supported, it announces also that the new division is started in IBM global services in New York.
As for the software unit of the IBM affiliation such as Lotus and Tivoli, in the future as for the respective brand although it maintains, in the point, integration which utilizes Web service, it keeps being swallowed it is not different in the solution which IBM offers.
This week, even accidentally the Tech Ed conference of Microsoft is held in Atlanta. Besides the fact that you celebrate the proper form shipment of Mobile Information Server, Web service is designated as the foundation, NET
With the contents which appeal the way of the rapid advance of Enterprise Servers, the batting it has done honestly.
Al Zola of Lotus which appears in general session of first day - "without comparing with Microsoft simply, we want CEO. If it does, they should be compared with IBM/Lotus ", you said.
In the Lotusphere 2001 conference of January "in IBM there is various cultures in every section. Lotus with unique culture, we would like to make that important ", it is he who was said but, that with the adjusting skill," IBM/Lotus "before the crustal alteration, gaining force of Web service it opposes is not obtained it seems.
In Lotus which applies focusing to collaboration of the person and the person, we want developing the progressive software even from this. The dominant right due to IBM strengthens, it probably is to be the request such as that, always to the background of the guess whether it does not mean that Lotus dyes to the big blue.
Zola who had become common usage - the droppings equipment, appearing in the commercial of IBM, was the ? astronaut. The graduate of IBM say, to the blue to dye is originally too much.
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