Friday, October 22, 2004 
New features in WebSphere 6, which IBM is making available the second week of December, <A HREF="http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb101904-story03.html">continue to evolve the product</A> well beyond it's infant stage when issues of complexity and extreme costliness made it the target of frequent criticism. Improvements in the development with and administrative of WebSphere are substantial and have likely given IBM the edge over BEA Systems and Microsoft, at least temporarily, in the Web application server market.
