ARMONK, NY - 05 Mar 2002: The IBM eServer p690 and WebSphere(R) Application Server 4.0 have won eWEEK magazine's eXcellence award for best server hardware and best e-business foundation, defeating key industry rivals in head-to-head competition. The awards highlight IBM's unique ability to provide the infrastructure necessary for the complete spectrum of business computing.
The IBM eServer and WebSphere are among 15 products selected by eWEEK that exemplify the steady evolution of e-business technologies. A special report on the competition appears in the March 4 issue of eWeek.
IBM was selected over a number of competitors, including Sun Microsystems, whose Sun Fire 15K server lost to the IBM eServer p690. WebSphere bested several software competitors, including BEA and Oracle.
"It's an honor for the IBM eServer p690 to be recognized by eWEEK as the best server hardware," said Val Rahmani, general manager, IBM eServer pSeries. "The result of a five-year development effort, the new IBM eServer offers superior performance[1], reliability and affordability for transaction processing, ERP and a host of other mission-critical workloads."
"Winning eWEEK's prestigious eXcellence Award is another sign of WebSphere's industry leadership," said Scott Hebner, Director, IBM's WebSphere Application Server and Tools. "Tens of thousands of customers rely on WebSphere as their e-business infrastructure platform for creating, deploying and integrating key business processes, and handling high-volume Web transactions reliably and securely."
A Winning Season
Since its launch in October, the IBM eServer p690 has swept the field of prestigious awards, with the eWeek honor as the latest jewel in its crown. In December, the server won VARBusiness' Editors' Choice Award. Earlier this year, MicroDesign Resources recognized the server's revolutionary new processor -- the IBM POWER4 -- as Best Workstation/Server microprocessor.
The IBM eServer p690 has gained significant recognition for it's innovative system-on-a-chip design, self-managing technologies and unique architecture that enable it to offer tremendous power and reliability with significantly fewer processors than competing systems.
Providing superior performance than other servers at half the price, the eServer p690 has already won numerous customers, including The Gap, Ahold, Raytheon, Graybar Electric Co., and Adam Opel AG. For more information about the IBM eServer p690 and other IBM UNIX systems, please visit www.ibm.com/eServer/pSeries.
WebSphere is used by 75 percent of the top commercial banks worldwide, 15 top Wall street brokerage firms, the top seven U.S. telecoms, and 80 percent of the top U.S. healthcare companies.
WebSphere is Internet infrastructure software -- known as middleware -- that enables companies to develop, deploy and integrate next-generation e-business applications. WebSphere supports business applications from simple Web publishing through enterprise-scale transaction processing. WebSphere transforms the way businesses manage customer, partner and employee relationships. More information about the WebSphere software platform is on the Web at www.ibm.com/websphere.
The second annual eWEEK excellence awards aims to provide its enterprise IT readers with an inclusive benchmark for comparing the best products and services on the market. The award looks at the efficiency, performance and competitive edge of the products. The products were evaluated by a panel of eWEEK Lab analysts and Corporate Partner Judges.
Contact(s) information
John Buscemi
IBM Media Relations
(914) 766-4495
jbuscemi@us.ibm.com
Laurie Friedman
IBM Media Relations
(914) 766-1299
laurie1@us.ibm.com
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| Servers System i, System p, System x, System z, BladeCenter, and Supercomputers |
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| Software Information Management (DB2), Workplace, Portal & Collaboration Software (Lotus), Tivoli, Rational, WebSphere, Open standards, open source |