Nortel, with IBM aid, makes SOA bid

摘要

Nortel last week announced a relationship with IBM to plot a service-oriented architecture and Web services framework for the development of communications-enabled applications and business processes. Called Nortel's Communication Enablement strategy, the framework is intended to allow customers to integrate communications services into business applications through a tool kit or acquire communications-enabled applications directly from Nortel. Such applications will embed presence, location, identity, conferencing and other capabilities. The framework is built on IBM's WebSphere Application Server, which Nortel will resell under an OEM arrangement.