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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.
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The 2001 InfoVision Awards recognize the information industry’s most unique
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and beneficial products of 2000, and winners were selected based on
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innovation, uniqueness, market impact, customer benefit, and value to
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society. In recent months, WebSphere has:
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Garnered thousands of customers across all industries. WebSphere is
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used by 75 percent of the world’s top commercial banks, seven of the eight
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top U.S. telecoms, and 80 percent of the top U.S. healthcare companies.
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WebSphere is used by 35,000 customers around the world.
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Enjoyed ten consecutive quarters of double-digit growth, including a
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75 percent jump in YTY revenue, as of 3Q01
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Gained significant marketshare. IDC says that WebSphere is growing
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faster than that market and significantly faster than its nearest
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competitor.
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Delivered across-the-board support for Web services. IBM supports
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open Internet standards in all its middleware offerings to provide
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businesses with new levels of connectivity on the Web. WebSphere supports
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all the open standards and technologies necessary to develop, publish and
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deploy Web services applications, including UDDI, SOAP, J2EE, WSDL, and
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enhanced integration of leading XML technologies.
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WebSphere this year delivered the first commercially available set
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of Web services and Java Server Pages development tools.
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Continued to gain momentum among business partners. More than 9,000
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independent software vendors write applications on top of WebSphere,
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representing 500 percent year-to-year growth.
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Driven wider support in the software developer community. There are
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more than 600,000 active WebSphere developers worldwide.
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InfoVision Award winners will be recognized during the IEC’s annual event,
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the National Communications Forum 2001, to be held Oct. 29-Nov. 1, 2001, at
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the Hyatt Regency O’Hare, Rosemont (Chicago), Illinois.
