India Telecom

May 12, 2005
IBM Express for SMBs

NEW DELHI -- IBM recently launched IBM Express, to offer software solutions to small and medium sized business (SMB) customers, demanding solutions that are robust, easy to deploy, secure and built on a foundation that can adapt and grow as their company grows.

In a seminar held recently, Justin Tyberg, software engineer, competitive technology laboratory, IBM software group, and Casey Paxton, advisory software engineer and a member, competitive project lab, showed how to reduce the time it takes to build key industry and cross-industry solutions by using IBM's solution builder express and rational developer tools. He also demonstrated how to leverage the express runtime environment to quickly package and deploy solutions, minimising human intervention during the installation process.

IBM developerWorks is an industry-leading resource that provides access to software, skill-building and development tools for developers. These aids and solutions help developers in businesses of all sizes to build and deploy application across heterogeneous systems. It also provides an environment for developers worldwide to meet online and offline technical briefings to gain knowledge and skills, and exchange ideas about technologies that shape the future of the industry.

Within the developerWorks ecosystem, developers collaborate openly, design innovative applications and gain an understanding of advanced technologies, such as automatic and grid computing, and service oriented architectures (SOA). It includes product trials and downloads, how-to articles from introductory to advanced levels, certification tutorials, technical forums, news, events, etc. The developerWorks technology zone includes automatic computing, grid computing, Java, Linux, open source projects, IBM power architecture technology, SOA, Web services, Web architecture, wireless technology and XML. Technologists benefiting from developerWorks resource include software, hardware and microcode developers, testers, analysis and architects, IT technical staff, IBM business partners, students, university technical staff and faculty.

Tyberg said, "Budgets are tight and competition is fierce, not only with other solution providers, but also with Microsoft, who is seeking to grow its applications business."