Candle Corp’s got a bunch of work coming down with IBM Corp, including, it said, being part of the rah rah which will accompany the announcement of two application suites for Windows NT this week. IBM’s going to demo the software and explain plans to ramp up its NT campaign at its annual BPEC business partners executive conference in San Francisco this week. These days Candle’s main focus is creating system management products which leverage messaging middleware, both IBM’s MQSeries and Microsoft’s MSMQ Falcon. Candle resells MQSeries and has developed a bunch of add-on management tools which make configuration and use easier. It sounds as if IBM is going to put a bunch of messaging, OLTP, database, groupware and net stuff – including Tivoli and Lotus – into easy-to-use packages for different classes of NT user. By the look of BPEC proceedings it’s going to make a song and dance about NT running inside the AS/400 on the IPCS Integrated PC Server Intel CPU board. IBM’s set to address usability issues on a bunch of its products and other announcements are planned for this week. Candle is also set to reveal more details of its nascent Roma software architecture which will enable customers to deploy applications which can run over multiple messaging environments.
