Businesses using IBM's e-commerce software will be able to use Palm handhelds to access stored information, under the terms of a partnership expected to be announced Tuesday.
IBM said it will offer later this year the ability to use Palm handhelds to access information stored on servers running WebSphere, IBM's e-business software. Such access is already available to handhelds running Microsoft's rival Pocket PC operating system.
IBM will also resell Palm m515 handhelds, as it does with HP's Ipaq handhelds and Research In Motion's Blackberry e-mail pagers.
In addition, IBM will make available its Lotus Sametime secure instant messaging program for the Palm and the two companies will jointly sell and develop handheld software.
The companies said the deal is multi-year and that no money is changing hands.
News source: Cnet
IBM said it will offer later this year the ability to use Palm handhelds to access information stored on servers running WebSphere, IBM's e-business software. Such access is already available to handhelds running Microsoft's rival Pocket PC operating system.
IBM will also resell Palm m515 handhelds, as it does with HP's Ipaq handhelds and Research In Motion's Blackberry e-mail pagers.
In addition, IBM will make available its Lotus Sametime secure instant messaging program for the Palm and the two companies will jointly sell and develop handheld software.
The companies said the deal is multi-year and that no money is changing hands.
News source: Cnet
SharePoint 2.0 will also include a new version of Small Business Server -- code-named Bobcat -- and SharePoint Team Services 2.0.
"What we're doing with .Net server is, ... [we're] integrating the SharePoint Team Services capability as a foundation for this kind of collaborative routine work, and that's going to begin with SharePoint Team Services 2.0," Raikes said.
Microsoft plans to use SharePoint 2.0 as a core technology to deliver "information workers" additional collaborative capabilities.
"I think it's very important that we think of what we do in the Office world as a smart client for plugging in to SharePoint Team Services," Raikes said.
Microsoft is also working to extend its client environment with the peer-services capabilities of Groove, according to industry sources.
The collaboration efforts contrast with Microsoft's decision in April to abandon its centralized .Net My Services initiative and focus on its Passport authentication service instead in an effort to move to a federated identity management model.
Microsoft also announced last week it will support SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language), signaling that it will work more closely with the Liberty Alliance, IBM, and Sun to develop a common approach to federated ID management.
But some analysts are wary.
"These organizations need to ensure that different authentication and SSO [single sign-on] systems interoperate," said Shawn Willett, principal analyst at Sterling, Va.-based Current Analysis. "[One] problem is that Microsoft is pushing the alternative technology," he added.
The move to stitch the HailStorm architecture into the client/server software stack fits with the overall expansion of the .Net Framework, said Dana Gardner, an analyst at Boston-based Aberdeen Group.
"Are we calling it HailStorm going forward? No. We're calling it Web services and .Net," Microsoft's Mangione said. "But a lot of the thinking around schemas, how you get multiple objects -- frankly, there was, in some cases, overlap with other parts of the company. We were heading down a path of developing multiple ways to access [and store] data, multiple ways to store a contact. And that didn't make sense."
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