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Due to the enthusiastic attendance of our IBM Software Experience last year we also planned some great workshops for you in 2010!

We start in Q1 with a workshop about Rational Application Framework for WebSphere and WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance and a separate workshop a week later about WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition.

We hope you’ll enjoy them as much as the ones we had last year! – If you have suggestions for workshops in 2H10, please let us know!

We published our first two results for a new benchmark called SPECjEnterprise2010 a few weeks ago. This new benchmark covers Java EE 5, which makes it much more applicable to today’s applications than the old SPECjAppServer2004.

We’re the first vendor to publish results, which demonstrates our commitment and leadership. – Of course these results will only make sense in context compared to benchmark results submitted by other vendors.

Update 1/19: A press release covering this is also available in the IBM press room.

I was recently discussing with a colleague on how to do caching inside of WebSphere Process Server (WPS). A few days later I stumble upon a blog post linking to a developerWorks tutorial on this exact topic. Good timing, Andrew! :-) [via SOA Tips 'n' Tricks blog]

What do you think about hosting a public WebSphere IdeaJam similar to the Lotus IdeaJam? Vote now!

When a request is retried, all servers might not be attempted before failure reported to client.

If you’re running clusters with only two cluster members you might want to apply APAR PK99869 or upgrade to the fix pack as soon as it’s available.

Today we announced our V7 middleware products. You can find a summary of today’s announcement in our announcement summary.

Please also don’t forget to join our webcast titled Achieve Business Agility: Maximizing Business Results with Highly Agile, Interconnected Processes on October 29, 2009.

Bobby blogged about the roles of data center environments and their qualities of service today. I think we have to be very careful. Different environments are often managed differently by operations staff in a data center and those definitions might not always match how the machines are actually used. I really like the example with Rational Asset Manager (RAM). This is something that might conceptually be a development machine, but it is a production service.

Just imagine the case that you’re performing changes to RAM. You’d not like to do that in the production instance everyone uses, but you’d rather do this on development or test. The same is true for installing maintenance. You don’t want to install maintenance on your production RAM before testing it on a comparable system, even if it’s only used for development purposes.

WSRR though is completely different. It might actually be used for production and not only for development work.

To work smarter, we’ll need smarter organizations. To learn more, please join us for our Smart Work WW Videocast and our Smart Work Global Jam.

IBM will discontinue support for WebSphere Application Server V6.0 effective September 30, 2010. Please plan your migrations accordingly. You can find more details in the announcement letter.

After getting very positive feedback during our last workshops we scheduled two more WebSphere workshops as part of our IBM Software Experience. I’m already looking forward to both of these events and please feel free to contact me if you’ve got any questions about them.