IBM Corp.'s transaction-processing systems have always been among the best and most widely used. In fact, last year, they garnered both the DTP Well-Connected Award (for Encina) and an honorable mention (for CICS Transaction Monitor). This year, TXSeries integrates these into one package.

It takes more than repackaging to win our support, however. Fortunately, TXSeries continues to add value and innovate in a category that has few participants and is slow to change. Value comes in the form of a complete package that includes everything from Lotus Domino Go Webserver to MQSeries. Innovation comes in a full range of Internet, Java and enterprise clients, server-side Java support and enhanced e-commerce capability. With all these options, TXSeries is what a transaction server should be--an industrial-strength application server platform.

IONA Technologies' OrbixOTM is notable for integrating a CORBA ORB and full distributed transaction processing into a single, easily digestible package. OrbixOTM provides easy entry into these two rapidly integrating technologies. BEA Systems' TUXEDO continues to demonstrate exceptional performance.

IBM TXSeries 4.2, starts at $3,275,
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