Talk:IBM WebSphere

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[edit] Competing products/comparisons ?

So basically, it's a development platform like PHP or ASP ?

Not at all, it's a set of middleware components that are built on top of another development platform.
I've spent the last year and a half trying to develop middleware with different components and they're all rubbish, bar MQ. The concepts, although well thought out, are generally fundamentally flawed, but the part that makes them difficult to use is the fact they're so unstable.

As far as I'm aware, Microsoft's BizTalk server is a similar competing product. From the above, what is "MQ"?

Websphere MQ is a messaging engine 84.51.146.100 12:05, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Heading "Headline text"

What does the heading "Headline text" mean? Is this a place holder for a real heading or is it a correct heading relating to WebSphere? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.175.143.143 (talk) 00:41, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merge IBM RFID Information Center into this article

The article IBM RFID Information Center contains very little concrete information apart from a large collection of external links, most of which are duplicates or near duplicates of ones in this article. I suggest that the small amount of information in the RFID article could be easily merged into the main WebSphere one. -- MightyWarrior (talk) 12:16, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Forgive me, this is my first attempt creating a wikipedia page. THANK YOU Mighty Warrior for your pointer in developing under my profile first and then moving to this page after I've got the info... however, I was hoping that the community effort aspect would take over and I wouldn't be the sole contributor to this article, but it looks like I'm the only one with any real motivation to work on this. So to the powers that be, will you please give this article till Wednesday of next week before merging or moving (and I will be working till then on adding the bulk of info that will qualify this article to stand alone)?

Thx. Rebekahalnablack (talk) 19:01, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

No problem to allow the IBM RFID Information Center article to develop for a while, Rebekah. I'll tag it as "under construction" (although this is liable to be removed if no work actually gets undertaken!). My comment about starting in user space was really for any future articles that you might want to develop on a piece-by-piece basis. Note that there still might be a case for merging the content into IBM WebSphere, even when the article is expanded. It all depends on whether there is consensus for the article to stand on its own, or not. That's really what this discussion hopes to decide, one way or the other. -- MightyWarrior (talk) 21:03, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Dear Mighty Warrior, what are the criteria for merging the IBM RFID Information Center article into IBM WebSphere? After some major revisions over the last week, the article is looking like it could stand alone now. I want to avoid going overboard by populating the article with too much information, but it is a very complex product, and it seems like I could always add more! Please let me know if there are still major gaps in the article or any other feedback. Thx! Rebekahalnablack (talk) 06:12, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
It does look like the article is now contains sufficient information about the subject itself to require a separate article. I am therefore withdrawing the merge suggestion, especially since no-one else has volunteered any opinion on the matter. I would still recommend that a link is placed in IBM WebSphere to the new article, and other opportunities to link it into articles are explored. Care must also be taken not to let the new article sound too much like an advert or sales brochure. Regards. -- MightyWarrior (talk) 09:08, 17 April 2008 (UTC)