IBM, fresh from dethroning Oracle Corp. as the No. 1 data base maker, is now aiming to become the leading maker of software that business use to run their operations over the Web.
At its developer conference in San Francisco, International Business Machines Corp. unveiled a strategy that turns up the heat on software makers BEA Systems Inc., webMethods Inc. and Tibco Software Inc..
The new strategy centers on IBM's new WebSphere Version 5 application server -- software that engineers use to build applications, connecting them to data bases and transaction processors and putting the results out on Web sites.
IBM's strategy intensifies the fierce rivalry that has been brewing for more than a year between Big Blue and No. 1 application server maker BEA.
IDC, which tracks market share, is expected within the next few weeks to release its most recent figures, spotlighting the win, place and show positions for 2001, and who is out of the quickly consolidating market.
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