IBM WebSphere� Application Server drives business agility by providing millions of developers and IT Architects with an innovative, performance based foundation to build, reuse, run, integrate and manage Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications and services. * Run applications and services in a reliable, highly available, secure and scalable environment to ensure business opportunities are not lost due to application downtime * Delivers optimized runtime performance through provisioning, web services, and EJB3 enhancements which can result in fewer energy consuming processors performing the same workloads of previous versions * New security capabilities add deeper levels of management, user governance and auditing to decrease system vulnerabilities while maximizing developer productivity. * From service-enabling legacy assets to inventing new ones, our technology makes your business accessible to new users in innovative ways, giving you immediate insight and interaction with partners, suppliers and customers and increasing your return on investment. * WebSphere Application Server V7 supports the broadest range of platforms in the industry, helping provide assurance that your applications can be built to run on the platform that most makes sense for your business * Increase developer productivity using enhanced support for standards, emerging technology and a choice of development frameworks that simplify programming models * WebSphere Application Server will continue to introduce Feature Packs on top of V7 simplifying the adoption of new standards such as Services Component Architecture (SCA) * Operating systems supported: AIX, HP Unix, i family, Linux, Sun Solaris, Windows, z/OS