Robert LeBlanc Customers Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.