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The Global WebSphere Community Newsletter - October 2008
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The Global WebSphere Community Newsletter
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October 2008
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Dear WebSpherian,
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Thank you for subscribing to the monthly Global WebSphere Community Newsletter - Containing the latest information on Global WebSphere Community announcements and WebSphere software-related topics of interest.
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Primeur, a privately held Italian international company specializing in Managed File Transfer, Security and Systems Management, has recently become a Platinum Sponsor of the Global WebSphere Community. Primeur specializes in Business Integration and SOA/ESB implementation, and has worked closely with IBM for many years in providing WebSphere consultancy and implementation professional services. As well as services, Primeur also provides WebSphere focused products, most notably WebSphere Message Broker File Extender which IBM OEM'd from Primeur.
A Primeur employee, Guido Puglielli, leads the Italian WUG and Primeur understands the importance of sharing and exchanging ideas and experience with peers throughout the industry to maximize the RoI companies have made in WebSphere. "Being open to new ideas and listening to our customers is a key reason for our success," said Peter Sedgwick, Director Primeur UK Limited. "We believe strongly in the R of R&D and our customers have played a large part in ensuring that our products meet real market requirements and reduce costs".
IBM's recent announcement of WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition is a particular example of where Primeur's products and services are complementary. Primeur's Governance, Audit and Compliance product - Orchestration Suite - add support for WMQ FTE alongside other Internet and proprietary file transfer protocols, thus providing a single web based reporting tool across all an enterprise's file transfers.
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Belgian WUG
The Belgian WUG met on October 13 to a packed house! As the first Belgian WUG Meeting since 2006, the high interest indicates a strong demand in this region for many meetings. Agenda included launch announcements by John McClean, VP of WebSphere Connectivity Development and Hursley Laboratory Director, and "WebSphere Business Events" by Rolf Riedlinger, Manager of the IBM Business Process Competency Center in Boeblingen. Rolf's presentation is available here
Northern California WUG
The Northern California WUG enjoyed a crowd of over 30 attendees in October. Intel presented their experiences, as well as Walter Falk, Global GTS SOA PDT leader, who presented on behalf of IBM.
Join and learn more about the Northern California WUG here
And download Walter's presentation here
Atlanta WUG
The Atlanta WUG had a strong showing from its members, with 23 attendees excited for the iPod giveaway organized by WUG Leader Handly Cameron. Lots of networking and brainstorming over future meeting topics followed the meeting. To view the presentation, click here
To learn more about Atlanta WUG or join, click here
 New York WUG
The New York WUG enjoyed a great showing from its members during its October 7 meeting. Over thirty members attended to hear from Doug Hunt, VP SOA Advanced Technologies of IBM, an excellent customer presentation by Gary Gershon of Chubb and a panel Q&A with Doug, Gary, Joachim Frank and Daniel Julien. There was very positive feedback about the new 30 window for the SOA Sandbox.
 NY WUG members also gathered at the break for a bit of fun: WebSphere tenth birthday cupcakes, candles, and a Happy Birthday WebSphere song
To join the New York WUG, click here
 Washington, D.C. WUG
Over 20 members and speakers were hosted by the DC WUG to discuss several topics: Connecting your applications in better ways through WebSphere and SOA; BPM End to End; and a "deep dive" of the WebSphere Launch Announcements. Members also enjoyed cake, fun giveaways, and as always, great networking!
 Click here to join and learn more about the DC WUG. |
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Global WebSphere Community - Re-designed Home Page
We have updated the layout of the home page of the websphere.org page in an effort to surface the freshest, user-generated content and make navigation easier. Now organized in clean, logical columns, one can see at a glance upcoming WUG meetings, recent Forum discussions, recently uploaded WUG Presentations, and more! Be sure to check it out, and don't forget to use Digg, Del.icio.us and Refer-a-Friend to show our new look to your friends and colleagues!
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WebSphere's 10 Year Anniversary Celebration
Check out the interactive anniversary website
Get SOAsocial!
Here's a hot new spot for the whole SOA community to gather, participate in SOA conversations, and track SOA activities of your choice. Gain and share knowledge and insights to speed the success of SOA projects. SOAsocial is hosted by InfoQ and exclusively sponsored by IBM.
Evans Data Corp releases the findings of their 2008 Users' Choice: Application Server Rankings and states "IBM WebSphere takes first place."
Application server developers and users ranked IBM's WebSphere higher than application servers offered by Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe, and four others in the 2008 Evans Data Corp. Application Server Users' Choice survey.
In the worldwide survey of over 700 developers, only users of each application server rated the corresponding product on twenty-one different attributes including performance, scalability, support, database connectivity, and security features. In addition the developers rated the importance of each attribute to provide relative weighting. WebSphere took top scores in ten out of the twenty-one categories as well as in combined overall score.
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Hardware Virtualization and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise
A new technical white paper describes how WebSphere Virtual Enterprise and hardware virtualization including PowerVM, z/VM, and VMware technologies work together. A list of the currently supported hardware virtualization environments is provided.
IBM SOA Flexible Infrastructure Treatment Plan Video
This video highlights how an SOA Healthcheck utilizing WebSphere Virtual Enterprise, IBM's New Enterprise Data Center, and Tivoli Workload Automation can ensure high quality of service and a flexible infrastructure.
Application Server Choices
Sageza Group, an analyst firm highlighting the competitive differentiators of IBM's application infrastructure family of products including WAS and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise vs. Oracle.
Open Source Consolidation package
Learn more about IBM's package that combines WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise to enable application consolidation of open source application servers onto highly reliable IBM System z running Linux, increasing application availability and performance while reducing operational costs.
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