October 29, 2001 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IBM (ibm.com/websphere) announced it has won an InfoVision Award from the International Engineering Consortium (iec.org), naming WebSphere e-business infrastructure software as one of the most original Internet products of 2000.
The 2001 InfoVision Awards recognize the information industry’s most uniqueand beneficial products of 2000, and winners were selected based oninnovation, uniqueness, market impact, customer benefit, and value tosociety. In recent months, WebSphere has:
Garnered thousands of customers across all industries. WebSphere isused by 75 percent of the world’s top commercial banks, seven of the eighttop U.S. telecoms, and 80 percent of the top U.S. healthcare companies.WebSphere is used by 35,000 customers around the world.Enjoyed ten consecutive quarters of double-digit growth, including a75 percent jump in YTY revenue, as of 3Q01Gained significant marketshare. IDC says that WebSphere is growingfaster than that market and significantly faster than its nearestcompetitor.Delivered across-the-board support for Web services. IBM supportsopen Internet standards in all its middleware offerings to providebusinesses with new levels of connectivity on the Web. WebSphere supportsall the open standards and technologies necessary to develop, publish anddeploy Web services applications, including UDDI, SOAP, J2EE, WSDL, andenhanced integration of leading XML technologies.WebSphere this year delivered the first commercially available setof Web services and Java Server Pages development tools.Continued to gain momentum among business partners. More than 9,000independent software vendors write applications on top of WebSphere,representing 500 percent year-to-year growth.Driven wider support in the software developer community. There aremore than 600,000 active WebSphere developers worldwide.
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