“Componentization is a very interesting thing for IBM; it cuts across the software products and there’s an enormous effort to come up with the logical components and make the building blocks,” said Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst ZapThink, a Waltham, Mass.-based research firm. “One interesting thing is that some components that have been associated with one brand are now associated with another brand. For example, the portal is identified with Lotus, but it’s part of the WebSphere brand. The same is true with DB2 Integrator, which has been named WebSphere Integrator. It includes mostly DB2 technology under the covers.”

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