ARMONK, NY - 15 Feb 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that WebSphere Application Server, a key building block for services oriented architecture (SOA), shattered a popular industry benchmark for scalability and performance by more than 33 percent using technology that costs half the price of the competition.

"This benchmark delivers an unprecedented, high level of performance in a real-world customer environment," said Tom Rosamilia, general manager, IBM Application and Integration Middleware. "IBM has more than 100,000 WebSphere Application Server customers worldwide and these results confirm why IBM middleware is consistently chosen to power some of the world's largest and most demanding applications. WebSphere Application Server provides the SOA infrastructure to meet customer needs today and for the future." 

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