«[According to Robert LeBlanc, general manager for WebSphere for IBM Software Group, Staples became an early adopter of SOA two years ago, working closely with IBM to build a scalable, integrated, multichannel retailing solution.] They needed scalability, because the old system did not scale, ... and they started to grow and expand their business. And they really needed a new style of architecture. ... They wanted to go over the system once and reuse the pieces over and over again as they were bringing new services to their customer set.»

«[To build its SOA environment, Staples first had to dissect its business processes into its component functions, such as inventory checking, build-to-order, order history, and so on.] Then they took that business model and they implemented it on top of IBM products, like WebSphere Commerce, WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Application Server, Product Center, and DB2 -- and they did this on iSeries, ... Now they have a kind of full, SOA environment that enables them to bring new services to the marketplace much quicker, allows them to integrate any piece of the company they have or acquisitions very quickly, and gives a single, seamless view of their customer set across multiple channels. So they've gotten extremely good business value from being able to do that.»

«It's a product of itself based on Web services standards, built on top of WebSphere Application Server, ... We've always viewed ESB as a set of patterns and we still do. What we are hearing from the customers is there are certain patterns they like to see brought together and the WebSphere ESB handles that Web services open pattern.»

«We believe over time, customers will move to more function and higher scales sets of infrastructures. Customers needed an entry point to do SOA based on Web services.»

«Most broker products are just doing basic Web services connectivity, ... The Process Server goes beyond that and provides a lot more capability. In fact, inside the Process Server is the ESB. The ESB is just an enabler for the whole environment.»

«Knowing these people, most of them are hunters, trappers, farmers, they're not going to wait on FEMA or anyone else. They're going to do what they need to do. They're used to primitive conditions.»

«FEMA has asked us for temporary housing land that we have available.»

«All they (FEMA) said is that they will send somebody to see, whatever that means.»

«Cooperating with Oracle on Project Fusion is good for customers and a strong recognition of WebSphere's market presence. We've worked together on J.D. Edwards, PeopleSoft and other similar projects, so we welcome Oracle's Fusion applications on WebSphere.»

«We plan to introduce a family of appliances»