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Well it looks like an early Christmas present for IBM Business Partner and ISV, Bowstreet - IBM just announced the acquisition of the company.

IBM Press Release: IBM Acquires Bowstreet, Inc. to Help Customers Quickly Create Portals that Integrate Existing Business Applications

ARMONK, NY - 20 Dec 2005:

IBM today announced the acquisition of Bowstreet, Inc., a Massachusetts-based provider of portal-based tools and technology that helps companies bring together corporate applications, documents, databases and other enterprise information into a single, integrated portal application, without requiring significant technical skills. By bringing together assorted data and information into a single “composite” application, businesses can more easily share and connect their data with customers, partners and suppliers, which increases collaboration and leads to increased organizational productivity.

Bowstreet will help further IBM’s strategy around service oriented architectures (SOA), a standards-based framework that enables enterprises to more effectively integrate data and applications with customers, partners and suppliers. Bowstreet will enable customers to more easily combine a wide variety of pre-existing data and enterprise applications seamlessly with their WebSphere Portal environments and leverage the benefits of an SOA architecture.

Unfortunately I’m actually away on holidays right now, so I can’t write more about it … I’ll do some more analysis and discussion when I’m back.

But it is interesting, not only because this fits into my portfolio area, but it also directly impacts on my job … especially since I’m about to move into a new role at IBM, working with ISVs (more details on that too, when I am back from holidays).