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History

  •  Development started in mid-1990th.

  •  First released in June 1998

Market Share

  • 93 of the Fortune 100 companies implemented WebSphere; and many of them were early adopters of this software.

  • MQSeries software is used by many Fortune 500 companies, including Chase Manhattan, Shell Oil, and the Gap.

  • One-third of WebLogic users also use WebSphere (Forrester Research 2003).

  • IBM is a leader of IT industry with $89.1 billion in revenue for 2003.

  • Microsoft Corp. leads the software segment with software revenue of $32.1 billion for 2003. IBM reported software revenue for fiscal 2003 of $14.3 billion.

  • 37% market share in Application Deployment software for IBM - the industry top position.

  • IBM WebSphere Portal is industry number 1 by IDC research.

  • WebSphere Commerce has a market share about 20% . Eustis estimated Big Blue increased its e-commerce software market share from 18 percent to 21 percent during the first half of 2003.

 


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