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.
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.
DB2 Warehouse Manager users will be migrated across to DataStage so we immediately get more DataStage sites.
Hi,
So what is the new name for the Ascential DataStage Enterprise Edition (with Parallel Extender) and are the training services given by Ascential be discontinued or changed in any way to suit the new products?.
Vinay
If you read the FAQ you will get answers to most questions, though the situation is likely to be different in 12 months. Ascential training and support will continue as is. Same numbers and same people. All products retain the same name with the word Ascential replaced by IBM WebSphere. It is now known at IBM WebSphere DataStage Enterprise Edition (formerly Ascential DataStage Enterprise Edition (formerly Parallel Extender (formerly Orchestrate (formerly a glint in a software engineers eye)))).
I think TX has a good future in the WebSphere suite. It gets merged in with the Business Intelligence Message Broker and provides a much better transformation engine.
There were rumours that DataStage Hawk would go into beta testing at the end of April. Anyone heard anything about this? I doubt the beta version will have any IBM WebSphere branding in it.