From: "Daniel Halle" Subject: Please distribute to your members: IBM e-business on demand Competitive Technical Briefing in Boston, Ma on April 23 at the Marriott Boston Copley Place Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 1:15 PM IBM has a technical briefing roadshow and it will be coming to the Marriott Boston Copley Place on April 23, and I was hoping that you might be able to post this in the Boston-Area User Group web site. If you have any questions, please call me at 781-895-2537. The invitation below describes an IBM Technical Briefing that will be held in Boston, MA on April 23. By attending this briefing, you will see some of the latest e-business technologies from IBM, including WebSphere Application Server v5 and WebSphere Studio v5, in action (through extensive live demonstrations). You will also see how IBM's e-business solutions differ from those of our competitors. In addition, you will receive complimentary tools and middleware, and a free t-shirt! Please see the invitation below for the details. We hope to see you in Boston, MA on April 23. *************************************** Subject: Invitation - IBM e-business on demand Competitive Technical Briefing in Boston, MA on April 23, 2003. e-business on demand Competitive Technical Briefing Greetings! The IBM Competitive Technology Lab has a brand new e-business on demand Competitive Technical Briefing in Boston, MA at the Marriott Boston Copley Place on April 23, 2003 and this is your special invitation to this briefing. Our latest briefing is loaded with analysis and demonstrations of IBM's products and comparisons to software from other vendors. This briefing has extensive new material on IBM's on demand software versus Microsoft's .NET, BEA, TIBCO and others. Space is limited, please register today at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/offers/techbriefings/ When you attend, you will receive a free t-shirt and trial versions of IBM tools and middleware products. Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm Join the IBM Competitive Technology Laboratory for our brand new e-business on demand briefing. In this complimentary, full-day technical briefing you will learn what it takes to be an on demand business. See how a flexible e-business infrastructure can enable your business to lower costs, improve productivity and quickly respond to new business opportunities. Through live side-by-side demonstrations see how IBM software provides a better on demand infrastructure than .NET, BEA or TIBCO. See IBM's software support a broad range of clients, including .NET. Learn how IBM software available today can enable you to be an on demand business and give you a competitive advantage. Through both presentations and live demonstrations, you will see the comprehensive capabilities of IBM software addressing business issues. We will discuss Web Services, Business Integration, J2EE standards, Performance and Portals. We'll take a fresh look at Tivoli systems management and security, DB2's storage and analytics, and the Lotus next generation collaboration technology. We'll show how WebSphere Studio Tools support development for this on demand infrastructure. We will also discuss Rational software and demonstrate how it complements and completes the integrated WebSphere Studio tool set. You will see these IBM products in action as they apply to several real-world business scenarios. We will use these business scenarios to compare IBM software with its competition -- Microsoft, TIBCO, BEA and other vendors. Come see and judge for yourself! Would you like to know the answers to these questions? 1. How do the open, self healing and flexible features of an on demand infrastructure enable you to respond quickly? 2. What market opportunities are still growing despite the poor market for I/T technology? 3. What is .NET and why is WebSphere is a better server side solution? 4. Why are WebSphere's tools more productive than Microsoft's or BEA's? 5. How can you broaden your web site's customer appeal and increase revenue? 6. What are the hidden costs of implementing a .NET solution? 7. How can WebSphere help you optimize your business process workflows BEFORE you deploy them? 8. What Lotus next generation technologies can improve employee productivity? 9. What is the new service oriented architecture and how can it substantially improve developer productivity? 10. What are IBM's advantages over Microsoft's BizTalk and BEA's WebLogic Integrator for integrating key business systems? 11. What Tivoli systems can detect and heal problems in your network of servers? 12. What DB2 OLAP tools can give you new insight into your business? 13. Which has better performance, WebSphere, .NET or BEA? If these questions intrigue you, then invest your time in attending this e-business on demand Competitive Technical Briefing. And please pass this invitation along to your friends and colleagues. Continue to visit http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/offers/techbriefings/ for a list of cities and dates and to register for the e-business on demand Competitive Technical Briefing. Sincerely, The IBM developerWorks team http://www.ibm.com/developerWorks Daniel Halle, Developer Community Manager IBM -- developerWorks 404 Wyman St. Waltham, MA 02454 internet: dhalle@us.ibm.com phone 781-895-2537 t/l 362-2537 fax 781-895-2417 t/l 362-2417 Have you registered for the dW Technical Briefings -- http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/offers/techbriefings/