
IBM India announced the independent software vendors (ISVs) advantage initiative, reinforcing its commitment to deliver solutions to the small and medium business (SMB) market. The initiative will provide ISVs with technical and marketing support to help meet the needs of SMB customers. As part of the initiative ISVs work with IBM India to port their applications to IBM’s open infrastructure, with a special focus on IBM Websphere Express and IBM DB2 Express running on Linux, as well as IBM Websphere and IBM DB2 Universal Database.