Adam Jollans is IBM Software Group's senior Linux strategist. He leads its worldwide Linux marketing strategy. In this role he is responsible for defining Linux marketing activities at the software category level and integrating them with both IBM's corporate Linux marketing strategy and specific DB2, WebSphere, Lotus, Tivoli, and Rational Linux marketing activities.

Wily Technology (www.wilytech.com) provides Enterprise Application Management solutions. The company's products are designed to enable companies to successfully manage their critical Web applications and infrastructure by providing real-time, end-to-end visibility into the performance and availability of these systems. Wily Technology is based in Brisbane, California, just south of San Francisco. WJ's former Editor-in-Chief Jack Martin had a chance recently to sit down with company CEO Dick Williams.

WebSphere Journal recently interviewed Doug Wilson, distinguished engineer and CTO of IBM's Lotus Software Division in Westford, Massachusetts. Part 2 of this interview addresses Eclipse and other topics, with concluding remarks by WebSphere Portal IT architect Richard Gornitsky about future WebSphere Portal enhancements.

WebSphere Journal recently interviewed Doug Wilson, Distinguished Engineer and CTO of IBM's Lotus Software Division in Westford, Massachusetts. Doug Wilson Speaks About His and Lotus's Background...

Jack Martin, editor-in-chief of WebSphere Journal, recently sat down with Buell Duncan, general manager of ISV and Developer Relations for IBM.

Steve Pattison, vice president of alliances and business development at Interwoven, talked to Jack Martin, editor-in-chief of WJ, about the enterprise content management (ECM) provider's relationship with IBM.

Swainson: 'Let's start by defining 'on demand.' First, on demand reflects what our customers are doing with their businesses - streamlining their business processes to make them more flexible and adaptive to new markets and opportunities. They use information technology as a tool to integrate these processes, so obviously IT is a critical enabler of on demand.'

On October 6, 2004, IBM announced the latest release of WebSphere, version 6. The next day, Jack Martin, editor-in-chief of WebSphere Journal, sat down to talk with Dr. Bob Sutor, the director of WebSphere Foundation Software, about some of the new features in this release.

In this Q&A Rick discusses ways in which companies can protect their mission critical data even as they connect their networks with outside partners.

We're very excited about that relationship. As you may know, OnStar is the world's largest telematics service provider (TSP), with more than 2.5 million subscribers. Hopefully, by the end of 2004, that will have grown to more than 3 million subscribers, which will make OnStar 5 times as large as the second largest TSP.

Making itself the first app server to deliver this type of simultaneous detection and recovery capability together, WebSphere Application Server Version 6, when it becomes available before the end of the year - says IBM - will 'help protect Internet business applications built on it, from a mortgage processing system to an automaker's supply chain application, with advanced autonomic computing capabilities from IBM.'

Jack Martin, editor-in-chief of WebSphere Journal, recently sat down with Bruce Radloff, CTO of OnStar, and Tony Lent, vice president of OnStar's Wireless Strategic Business Unit, to talk about how they use WebSphere.

Last month, Jack Martin, editor-in-chief of WebSphere Journal, and Tom Inman, vice president of product management and marketing, IBM WebSphere Software, talked about the differences between WebSphere and WebLogic. This month, they look at what's happening in WebSphere now and in the future - and review briefly the open-source competition, such as would-be alternatives like JBoss and Apache Geronimo.

With a customer roster that includes Fortune 500 companies like Citibank, Verizon, JP Morgan, and medium-sized shops like Spectra Marketing, Viador - provider of reporting and OLAP analysis tools for customers that need to do reporting and analyze their data such as financial analysis - also has a very strong presence in China. 'We are one of the largest business intelligence tools companies in China right now in terms of the support infrastructure,' Viador CTO Dave Lai tells Jack Martin. Read on for more about IT in China, the differences between WebSphere and WebLogic, and the up and coming role of Linux.

Jack Martin, editor-in-chief of WebSphere Journal, recently spent some time chatting with Tom Inman, Vice President Product Management and Marketing, IBM WebSphere Software, about WebSphere's market share relative to BEA's WebLogic, how IBM handles WebSphere sales, its customer and partner programs, and its plans for the future. The following is just part of the discussion of IBM's largest competitor in the application server market. The complete interview can be found in the next issue of WJ.

WebSphere Journal editor-in-chief Jack Martin recently chatted with Paraic Sweeney, IBM's VP of Marketing for Industry Solutions and Business Integration, Software Group. In this exclusive interview, Sweeney discusses IBM's Middleware Industry Solutions initiative, the drivers behind adding an industry-vertical dimension to the business, and the company's decision in 1999 to focus on middleware and get out of the application business.

WebSphere Journal recently interviewed Craig Hayman, vice president of Worldwide Development for IBM Pervasive Computing. In this exclusive interview, Hayman discusses pervasive computing and its role in IBM's on-demand computing initiative, IBM Pervasive Computing's key products, and some of IBM's pervasive computing success stories.

Jack Martin, editor-in-chief of WebSphere Journal, recently spoke with Rob High, IBM Distinguished Engineer and chief architect for IBM WebSphere Application Server. In this exclusive interview, High discusses the SMB market, computing as a utility, and WebSphere's approach to security.

Jack Martin, editor-in-chief of WebSphere Journal, recently spoke with Rob High, IBM Distinguished Engineer and chief architect for IBM WebSphere Application Server. In this exclusive two-part interview, High discusses principles of architecture, the evolution of customer requests into product features, and IBM's longstanding commitment to being on the front lines with their customers.

WebSphere Journal editor-in-chief Jack Martin recently chatted with Joe Damassa and the WebSphere marketing team, which features some new faces but is just as dedicated to the continued success of the WebSphere brand. In this exclusive interview the team discusses open standards, ISVs, Web services - and where WebSphere will go in 2004.

WebSphere Developer's Journal Editor-in-Chief Jack Martin recently spoke with IBM's Peter Fordyce, Worldwide WebSphere Foundation and Tools Sales Manager about how he sees his group's role in the WebSphere community - and what customers are looking for.

Jocelyne Attal is IBM's chief marketing executive for WebSphere, the leading software platform for e-business on demand. Attal focuses on the WebSphere e-business platform, which includes WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Studio development environment, WebSphere Business Integration, and WebSphere Portal, as well as wireless, commerce, host access, and voice solutions.

As chief architect of e-Business Integration Solutions for IBM Global Services, Kerrie Holley turns business requirements into cutting-edge network solutions. Holley, an IBM Distinguished Engineer, was honored for his contributions to IBM when he received the Chairman's Award at the 2003 Black Engineer of the Year Awards ceremonies.

Eclipse and IBM's open platform are helping to shape an exciting future for WebSphere, according to the WebSphere marketing team, headed up by Scott Hebner, director of marketing for WebSphere infrastructure software.

Customer involvement at all stages of product development, including early access for independent solution vendors, is crucial to IBM's strategy for managing the WebSphere Application Server development process, according to the WebSphere marketing team, headed up by Scott Hebner, director of marketing for WebSphere infrastructure software.

Development tools like WebSphere Studio, according to IBM's Scott Hebner, have changed 'from being almost rogue initiatives with a lot of customers driven by a couple of departments into really being strategic investments now.' And the entire usage of tools like this, and of application servers overall, has, he notes, changed.

Suchitra Joshi, a senior project manager for Competitive Technology Labs, talks with Jack Martin, editor-in-chief of WebSphere Developer's Journal, about 'Winning with WebSphere,' IBM's technical seminar focusing on WebSphere, its related products, and e-business.

Joe Anthony talks with Jack Martin, editor-in-chief of WebSphere Developer's Journal, about e-business on demand, Grid computing, and IBM's competition.

Stefan Van Overtveldt tells Jack Martin, editor-in-chief of WebSphere Developer's Journal, that WebSphere Application Server 5.0 is 'the next generation of application server,' and that it offers broad support for open standards and Web services and fosters increased developer productivity.

WSDJ editorial board member Jim Martin recently sat down with Mike Colleary, vice president of IBM Software Channels, Americas, to talk about WebSphere.

Jack Martin, editor-in-chief of WebSphere Developer's Journal, talked to Daniel Yellin, director of Software Technology at IBM Research and an IBM Distinguished Engineer.

Jack Martin, editor-in-chief of WSDJ, recently spoke with Dr. Sharon Nunes, IBM's director of Life Sciences Solution development, about how pharmaceutical companies are handling the rapid growth of information in drug development.

Recently Jack Martin, editor-in-chief of WSDJ, spoke to John Shedletsky, vice president of Competitive Technologies at IBM. In addition to running the Competitive Technology Lab, Shedletsky and his team host competitive seminars for business partners and potential customers to illustrate the technical differences between WebSphere and its competition.

Along with the official product name change to WebSphere Portal, there are significant changes in WebSphere Portal 4.1, the new release that Carol Jones, chief architect for WebSphere Portal recently described to Jack Martin, editor-in-chief of WebSphere Developer's Journal.

Jack Martin, editor-in-chief of WebSphere Developer's Journal, recently spoke with Larry Bowden, vice president of IBM Portal

Jack Martin, editor-in-chief of WebSphere Developer's Journal, recently sat down to talk with Jocelyne A. Attal about IBM's plans for the future of WebSphere WSDJ: What do you do at IBM? Jocelyne: I'm the vice president for marketing for the WebSphere brand. Which means a lot of things. I have a wonderful team that covers a very large scope of work for WebSphere. We work on strategy and design for the next version of WebSphere, making sure it has what customers and developers need and want. We are very focused on customer needs. Based on input from technical experts like Danny Sabbah (VP of Development), Don Ferguson (IBM Fellow), and others, we have some very original and innovative technology.

In the final part of our interview with Don Ferguson, Don talks about the future of WebSphere WSDJ: What is your vision for the future of WebSphere? DF: Our current focus is on implementing Web services and simplifying their development. WSFL and tools support for visually and dynamically building new Web services. Business rules support customizing the behavior of existing Web services.

In the last issue (WSDJ, Vol. 1, issue 2) Jack and Pat Martin, editors of WebSphere Developer's Journal, spoke with Don Ferguson about the beginnings of the WebSphere platform. This month, they look at Portal Server and what's happening with WebSphere today.

Jack and Pat Martin, editors of WebSphere Developer's Journal, recently sat down with Don Ferguson, 'the Father of WebSphere,' to talk about its history and his view of WebSphere's future.