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| SAFraser |
 Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:27 am Post subject: History of the WMB Product |
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Shaman
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I'm doing a presentation for some new teammates.
I found some history of the MQ product but have been unable to locate anything on WMB.
Does anyone know anything about its origins? e.g. Was it originally developed by IBM or bought from someone? Did it start life as an MQ-centric product? How long has it been around? I got involved with WMB only a few years ago, when it was branded as WMQI.
I wonder if anyone has a guess about how much market share WMB has in... what, the integration market? My sense has been that webMethods is the biggest player, but I think I just made that up in my head without any facts whatsoever.
Thanks, everyone.
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 12:45 pm Post subject: Re: History of the WMB Product |
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| SAFraser wrote: |
Does anyone know anything about its origins? e.g. Was it originally developed by IBM or bought from someone? Did it start life as an MQ-centric product? How long has it been around? I got involved with WMB only a few years ago, when it was branded as WMQI.
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Sometime around 2000 when I was doing training on MQSI 2.1 someone asked about the NEON rules formatter, that didn't seem to sit too well with the rest of the product. The trainer's response was "that's the old rules engine IBM bought from New Era Of Networks. They've pretty much replaced it now"
Certainly that version was highly MQ centric - no http nodes, no file support and only SCADA as an alternative input/output method. AFAIK the 2.1 docs are still on the IBM site if you want more details.
Corrections from more informed people welcomed. 
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| Michael Dag |
| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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I'm trying to remember if MQSI 1.0 was anything MORE than just the NEON/NNSY engine with some MQ Input/Output nodes.
I believe that v2.0 was the first IBM branded version.
The MRM was produced by the Dublin IBM Lab, and introduced in version 2.1 of the product. It was this that allowed IBM to start migrating away from the NNSY/NEON transformation engine - although as we can see it's still possible to buy a version of v6 with NNSY.
The product changed names in the 2.0/2.1 timeframe from MQ Series Integrator to WebSphere MQ Integrator. WMQI 2.1 started shipping in two versions, one with NNSY and one without NNSY, that was WMQIB. An aside, this is when I started working with Broker - at around the release of 2.1 CSD2 or 3.
V5.0 was introduced as WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker.
Somewhere in here, the first version of Event Broker was also released. It may have been available in 2.1, it may have only come out in v5...
V5.0 was also the first release that used the "Rules & Formatting Edition" name to refer to NNSY.
V5.1 was released as basically a Toolkit update, to allow the WBIMB Toolkit to run inside the same Eclipse shell as WSAD-IE.
EDIT: Michael Dag's link to a much more accurate listing/recollection was added while I was writing my own reminiscing.
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| SAFraser |
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| Thank you, guys, this is GREAT information. |
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