Keeping an Eye on the Future of Domino and WAS

For IBM, the future of both WAS and Domino is clearly all about how best to integrate the product families in terms of both function and developer communities. Clearly with recent product versions, this process has started. How may this integration affect application design decisions that need to be made today? We consider this question in the following section.

Toward Open Standards

A key issue in the Web application server and services marketplace is the choice between the use of open standards vs. proprietary programming interfaces. Or, to be blunt, J2EE versus .NET. As is well documented, an open standards foundation is a major part of IBM's strategy in the marketplace. WAS, being an implementation ...

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