IBM has signed an agreement to resell software developer Software
AG's e-business applications and services.
Central to the deal is Software AG's Tamino XML database for
integrating and accessing enterprise data directly in XML native
format. IBM will resell Tamino, and the two companies said they are
working together on closely bundling Tamino and IBM's WebSphere
application server.
IBM's DB2 universal database product competes with Tamino. Software
AG recently announced plans to extend Tamino beyond its core
database functionality. Two previously standalone products,
middleware add-on X-Bridge and development application X-Studio,
are being added to Tamino.
The newly renamed Tamino X-Bridge and Tamino X-Studio are included
in this agreement, Software AG said. Application integration
product EntireX is also part of the deal.
Tamino support for IBM's OS/390 mainframe operating system and AIX
Unix operating system has been added to the application, Software
AG said. A Software AG spokeswoman said the new operating system
support will be in the Tamino update shipping at the end of May.