IBM seems to put a lot of effort to embrace Microsoft technology. In many parts of their huge portfolio they start providing integration with Office, MOSSS and other products …
… Are the big boys like IBM a little worried about being left behind SharePoint in the enterprise content management (ECM) market? Seems enough so that they are working hard to implement solutions that help integrate with Microsoft’s burgeoning content management offering.
IBM announced a new technology and global reseller agreement with partner Mainsoft that enables enterprise customers to blend Java and .NET technology. Of particular interest are the SharePoint Federator components. …
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad SharePoint?
Big Blue is clearly worried about the broad proliferation of SharePoint sites. They are cropping up in companies and departments everywhere. With the free Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) so easy to turn on, and departments needing a simple to use, cheap place to store documents and collaborate on work, it’s no wonder they skip WebSphere to get their jobs done. So IBM, not wanting to get kicked completely to the curb needs an integration story for all these SharePoint data stores. …
Source: IBM Scrambles to Bridge Great SharePoint Divide
Barb Mosher
Date Published: Wed, 21 Nov 2007
