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IBM won stockholder approval of a buyout bid and closed another acquisition deal in two recent developments that will bolster its product and service offerings.

SOA is a means to an end, namely recombinant enterprise applications strung together from component services. Anyway, that's the idea animating the rash of M&A activity in recent months, by companies such as IBM, which bought Webify earlier this month, after snapping up two other SOA companies, DataPower and Bowstreet. But will the rise of SOA change the very nature of companies such as IBM and BEA, dragging them out of their comfort zone in middleware and professional services and turning them into enterprise application providers? InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill sat down with Webify CEO Manoj Saxena to find out.

IBM Monday gave a glimpse of the future to Notes/Domino users with the release of WebSphere Portal 6.0 and its support of next-generation Web technologies for building and assembling application components.

IBM Tuesday announced it bought portal software maker Bowstreet for an undisclosed amount.

IBM Corp. Tuesday announced that 100 independent software vendors have signed on to use software from its Workplace initiative, a new client computing model that gives employees a single way to access, share and manage applications and data. The company also announced that it has launched a Workplace Resource Center on its DeveloperWorks site to give developers and partners online access to tools and other resources for IBM Workplace technology.

IBM filled out its Workplace platform strategy on Tuesday, launching an online developer resource center that will give corporate and third-party developers access to tools to help develop products and services for the platform.

Bowstreet this week launched its Enterprise Portal Solutions, a set of portal-based composite applications designed to bolster employee, partner, and customer productivity.

Our call for predictions regarding the future of software development and Web services yielded a bumper crop of interesting insights.

Companies typically plan and deploy software portals to provide employees, customers and suppliers with a single, Web-based access point for data, content and both new and legacy applications across the enterprise.

Startup Swingtide Inc. this week announced its first offerings, aimed at taming XML sprawl.