{{Short description|Brand of computer software}} {{more citations needed|date=August 2012}} {{Infobox software | title = IBM Websphere | name = IBM WebSphere | logo = Websphere logo.png | logo caption = IBM WebSphere logo | screenshot = WebSphere diagram.jpg | website = {{URL|https://www.ibm.com/cloud/websphere-application-platform/}} }} '''IBM WebSphere''' refers to a brand of proprietary computer software products in the genre of enterprise software known as "application and integration middleware". These software products are used by end-users to create and integrate applications with other applications. IBM WebSphere has been available to the general market since 1998.
==History== In June 1998, IBM introduced the first product in this brand, ''IBM WebSphere Performance Pack''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.devxnews.com/article.php/54161 |title=IBM Introduces WebSphere Performance Pack<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2008-08-18 |archive-date=2005-08-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050819100843/http://www.devxnews.com/article.php/54161 |url-status=dead }}</ref> {{As of | 2012}} this first component formed a part of IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment.
==Products== {{See also|List of IBM products}}
The following products have been produced by IBM within the WebSphere brand:<ref>[http://www-01.ibm.com/software/websphere/industry/ IBM WebSphere industry solutions<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* IBM WebSphere Application Server - a web application server * IBM Workload Deployer - a hardware appliance that provides access to IBM middleware virtual images and patterns * IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale - an in-memory data grid for use in high-performance computing * IBM HTTP Server * IBM WebSphere Adapters<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246387.pdf |title=WebSphere Adapter Development |publisher=IBM|date=June 2006 |first1=Saida |last1=Davies| first2=William |last2=Moore |first3=Albert |last3=Chung |first4=Qian |last4=Li Jin |first5=Gregorio |last5=Patino |first6=Lakshminarayanan |last6=Sreenivasan}}</ref> * IBM Websphere Business Events * IBM Websphere Edge Components * IBM Websphere Host On-Demand (HOD) * IBM WebSphere Message Broker * Banking Transformation Toolkit * IBM MQ * IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory * IBM WebSphere Process Server * WebSphere Commerce (sold to HCL Technologies in 2019)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theserverside.com/opinion/Whats-the-future-of-WebSphere-as-HCL-acquires-IBM-products|title=What's the future of WebSphere Portal as HCL acquires IBM products?|first1=Sal|last1=Pece|date=30 Jul 2019|website=theserverside.com}}</ref> * WebSphere Portal (sold to HCL Technologies in 2019) * WebSphere Studio Application Developer (aka WSAD, replaced Rational Application Developer in 2003)
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==External links== * {{Official website|https://www.ibm.com/cloud/websphere-application-platform/}}
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