IBM WebSphere refers to a

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of proprietary

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products in the genre of

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known as "application and integration

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". 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

IBM introduced the first product in this brand, ''IBM WebSphere Performance Pack'', in June 1998. this original component forms a part of IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, which itself is one of many WebSphere-branded enterprise software products.

IBM WebSphere Software

The following complete list of IBM WebSphere software uses IBM classifications. Several tools appear in more than one category. IBM has also classified WebSphere software according to the capabilities offered for individual industries.IBM WebSphere industry solutions
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Application Infrastructure

Main Products

* IBM WebSphere Application Server - a

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* IBM Workload Deployer - a hardware appliance that provides access to IBM middleware virtual images and patterns * IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale - an

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data grid for use in

high-performance computing High-performance computing (HPC) uses supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computation problems. Overview HPC integrates systems administration (including network and security knowledge) and parallel programming into a multi ...

* IBM HTTP Server * IBM WebSphere Adapters * IBM Websphere Business Events * IBM Websphere Edge Components * IBM Websphere Host On-Demand (HOD) Host On-Demand Web-based TN3270, TN5250 and VT420 Terminal Emulation. * IBM WebSphere Message Broker * IBM WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit * IBM MQ (previously known as IBM MQSeries and IBM WebSphere MQ) * IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory * IBM WebSphere Process Server

Divested (Sold) Products

* WebSphere Commerce to

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in July 2019 * WebSphere Portal to

in July 2019

Notes and references

External links

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