Appendix E. The WebSphere Portal
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.” The line is Shakespeare's—it appears in Twelfth Night—but it applies surprisingly well to the greats of IT. The Apple Macintosh was born “insanely great” (in the typically modest words of Steve Jobs) and has stayed that way ever since, at least in the eyes of the Mac community. Windows, by contrast, achieved greatness after several years of development, including a period of joint development with IBM. And the story of e-business provides the names of many vendors who had greatness thrust upon them, all too briefly in many cases.
A new entrant in this third category is the portal server. Both WebSphere and its main rival, ...
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