Talk:IBM WebSphere

message: This article has not been written to be understood. It is confusing, it does not indicate how WebSphere is suppose to work, it rather lists a bunch of parts or subproducts that have not meaning to the reader.
::I agree completely. After seeing IBM's own site dealing with WebSphere, and finding nothing except enterprise-style yammering, I was really hoping Wikipedia could do a better job. Wvxvw (talk) 05:35, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: So basically, it's a development platform like PHP or ASP ?
:Not at all, it's a set of middleware components that are built on top of another development platform.
::I've spent the last year and a half trying to develop middleware with different components and they're all rubbish, bar MQ. The concepts, although well thought out, are generally fundamentally flawed, but the part that makes them difficult to use is the fact they're so unstable.
As far as I'm aware, Microsoft's BizTalk server is a similar competing product.  From the above, what is "MQ"?
:Websphere MQ is a messaging engine 84.51.146.100 12:05, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps, competing products are Jboss and Tomcat --OmadaXam (talk) 01:30, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Competing products/comparisons ? 

message: What does the heading "Headline text" mean? 
Is this a place holder for a real heading or is it a correct heading relating to WebSphere?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.175.143.143 (talk) 00:41, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heading "Headline text" 

message: The article IBM RFID Information Center contains very little concrete information apart from a large collection of external links, most of which are duplicates or near duplicates of ones in this article.  I suggest that the small amount of information in the RFID article could be easily merged into the main WebSphere one. -- MightyWarrior (talk) 12:16, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem to allow the IBM RFID Information Center article to develop for a while, Rebekah.  I'll tag it as "under construction" (although this is liable to be removed if no work actually gets undertaken!).  My comment about starting in user space was really for any future articles that you might want to develop on a piece-by-piece basis.  Note that there still might be a case for merging the content into IBM WebSphere, even when the article is expanded.  It all depends on whether there is consensus for the article to stand on its own, or not.  That's really what this discussion hopes to decide, one way or the other. -- MightyWarrior (talk) 21:03, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

text: Dear Mighty Warrior, what are the criteria for merging the IBM RFID Information Center article into IBM WebSphere? After some major revisions over the last week, the article is looking like it could stand alone now. I want to avoid going overboard by populating the article with too much information, but it is a very complex product, and it seems like I could always add more! Please let me know if there are still major gaps in the article or any other feedback. Thx! Rebekahalnablack (talk) 06:12, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It does look like the article is now contains sufficient information about the subject itself to require a separate article.  I am therefore withdrawing the merge suggestion, especially since no-one else has volunteered any opinion on the matter.  I would still recommend that a link is placed in IBM WebSphere to the new article, and other opportunities to link it into articles are explored.  Care must also be taken not to let the new article sound too much like an advert or sales brochure.  Regards. -- MightyWarrior (talk) 09:08, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge [[IBM RFID Information Center]] into this article 

message: Also in the WebSphere branding was the Micro Environment Java Virtual Machine for Palm OS. Hasn't been updated since version 5.7.2 was released circa 2007, 5.7.1 was released in 2005. Bizzybody (talk) 09:50, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Palm OS 

message: The section "WebSphere Compatibility Matrix" which is specific to WebSphere product was moved to the corresponding "IBM WebSphere Application Server" article which is specific at the WebSphere product, whereas this page is about the WebSphere brand.
Also, columns of the table were re-arranged to have the most modern version at the left of the table and not at the far end.
91.178.115.186 (talk) 20:08, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  WebSphere compatibility matrix 

message: The amount of external links in this article is really kind of ridiculous.  I mean, I think the idea of an exhaustive list of the products within the Websphere brand is way too much regardless, but having external links for each one is in clear opposition to the guideline on external links, which says that they shouldn't be used within the body of an article. They need to be removed. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 17:53, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: There was a strong "keep" consensus for this article six years ago, rejecting the notion that the product's entry here was prophetic rather than encyclopedic.  But now, the history is a single sentence, 95% of the article is a product catalog, and there are no references, just a single "further reading" entry.  I've done a cursory Google search to find reliable sources and only find advertising.  Is this article as pointless as it looks to me?  Should it just redirect to the listing of IBM products?  Or is there some potential?--~TPW 21:47, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I would say it has become an important set of products, and now this page is functioning as a disambiguation page.  So it will not be useful to redirect it. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 13:10, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revisit deletion?