IBM WebSphere

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IBM Websphere
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Website	www.ibm.com/cloud/websphere-application-platform/

IBM WebSphere refers to a brand of proprietary computer software products in the genre of enterprise software known as "application and integration middleware". These software products are used by end-users to create and integrate applications with other applications. IBM WebSphere has been available to the general market since 1998.

History

In June 1998, IBM introduced the first product in this brand, IBM WebSphere Performance Pack.^[1] As of 2012^[update] this first component formed a part of IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment.

Products

The following products have been produced by IBM within the WebSphere brand:^[2]

• IBM WebSphere Application Server - a web application server
• IBM Workload Deployer - a hardware appliance that provides access to IBM middleware virtual images and patterns
• IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale - an in-memory data grid for use in high-performance computing
• IBM HTTP Server
• IBM WebSphere Adapters^[3]
• IBM Websphere Business Events
• IBM Websphere Edge Components
• IBM Websphere Host On-Demand (HOD)
• IBM WebSphere Message Broker
• Banking Transformation Toolkit
• IBM MQ
• IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory
• IBM WebSphere Process Server
• WebSphere Commerce (sold to HCL Technologies in 2019)^[4]
• WebSphere Portal (sold to HCL Technologies in 2019)
• WebSphere Studio Application Developer (aka WSAD, replaced Rational Application Developer in 2003)

References

External links

• Official website