DataStage has a new name!
Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 5:21 pm
IBM have now completed the purchase of Ascential and announced the new names of the product suite:
http://www.ascential.com/products/name_changes.html
It is now official IBM WebSphere DataStage, part of the IBM WebSphere Data Integration Suite.
The IBM Ascential roadmap can be found at (the good news is that Hawk release is not delayed):
http://www.ascential.com/news/products_faq.html
DB2 Warehouse Manager users will be migrated across to DataStage so we immediately get more DataStage sites.
http://www.ascential.com/products/name_changes.html
It is now official IBM WebSphere DataStage, part of the IBM WebSphere Data Integration Suite.
The IBM Ascential roadmap can be found at (the good news is that Hawk release is not delayed):
http://www.ascential.com/news/products_faq.html
Quite a lot of the Ascential framework will be adopted by IBM integration products, for example some of the IBM products will be rewritten to use the Hawk look and feel. It looks like early rumours that DataStage TX would bite the dust due to duplicate functionality are incorrect. TX has a lot of stuff that IBM do not have.IBM remains committed to delivering the next major releases of both the WebSphere Information Integrator (IBM Project Serrano) and WebSphere Enterprise Data Integration Suite (IBM Project Hawk) in 2005. These releases are expected to occur on schedule (in the fourth quarter of 2005) and with the functionality and enhancement previously planned prior to this acquisition.
DB2 Warehouse Manager users will be migrated across to DataStage so we immediately get more DataStage sites.