The new IBM products, which will begin shipping this spring, will basically provide SOA in a box for organizations at what IBM calls the "entry point" in the adoption curve. IBM pSeries Unix servers will arrive at the customers door with a basic SOA configuration that includes IBM WebSphere and Tivoli software.
"You can buy one to get started," said Scott Handy, vice president worldwide marketing and strategy for IBM system p. "We've come up with a configuration for you and a how to get started guide, and a setup guide and some customer usage scenarios based on customers who have actually used that set of SOA software on a system p."
Advanced POWER Virtualization, IBM's virtualization technology is optional, but highly recommended, Handy said. With virtualization an organization with a single server can run SOA modules on multiple partitions, as well as on different flavors of the Unix operating system, he said.
