Robert LeBlanc Quotations

Knowing these people, most of them are hunters, trappers, farmers, they're not going to wait on FEMA or anyone else. They're going to do what they need to do. They're used to primitive conditions.

Most broker products are just doing basic Web services connectivity, ... The Process Server goes beyond that and provides a lot more capability. In fact, inside the Process Server is the ESB. The ESB is just an enabler for the whole environment.

We plan to introduce a family of appliances

We believe over time, customers will move to more function and higher scales sets of infrastructures. Customers needed an entry point to do SOA based on Web services.

We want to get that body to really be the body that keeps the Linux community together in terms of its APIs and the other standard pieces of Linux, because today it's really controlled by a set of individuals. And they've done a fabulous job of keeping it together, but you have to have something that's a little more structured and repeatable,

Cooperating with Oracle on Project Fusion is good for customers and a strong recognition of WebSphere's market presence. We've worked together on J.D. Edwards, PeopleSoft and other similar projects, so we welcome Oracle's Fusion applications on WebSphere.

Customers needed an entry point to be able to do very basic SOA based on a set of Web services.

Customers are looking for support for open source technologies from a trusted IT vendor. WAS CE allows customers and partners to tap the innovation of open source technology - backed by industry leading IBM support services - to quickly develop and deploy applications based on open source technologies.

Customers will approach messaging from multiple perspectives. It depends on whether you come from the application or network perspective.

FEMA has asked us for temporary housing land that we have available.

There's not many people who can do that.

This is part of our push and continued acceleration of our investments in SOA

It's a product of itself based on Web services standards, built on top of WebSphere Application Server, ... We've always viewed ESB as a set of patterns and we still do. What we are hearing from the customers is there are certain patterns they like to see brought together and the WebSphere ESB handles that Web services open pattern.

I flew over there and I didn't see one flag, one towel or one person on a roof.

All things that make up an SOA environment are candidates to be integrated on top of an appliance,

All they (FEMA) said is that they will send somebody to see, whatever that means.