Candle/ebizQ WebSphere Insider Newsletter Surpasses 5,000 Downloads Developers and IT Managers Select E-Newsletter as a Key Source for Technical IBM WebSphere Content

Candle Corporation, a leading enterprise infrastructure management provider, and business integration portal ebizQ, today announced growing demand for the new WebSphere Insider newsletter, which provides best practices, technology trends and case studies for all aspects of IBM WebSphere infrastructure software.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.(PRWB) October 3, 2003 – Candle Corporation, a leading enterprise infrastructure management provider, and business integration portal ebizQ, today announced growing demand for the new WebSphere Insider newsletter, which provides best practices, technology trends and case studies for all aspects of IBM WebSphere infrastructure software. Candle has partnered with ebizQ to develop the newsletter. Since launching WebSphere Insider in April, there have been more than 5,000 downloads of the newsletter, which illustrates market demand for proven techniques that address all phases of building, deploying and managing WebSphere.

WebSphere Insider provides readers with content to optimize and align their WebSphere investments with existing infrastructure and business objectives. WebSphere Insider is available now through ebizQ at www.ebizq.net/websphereinsider/.
The goal of WebSphere Insider is to provide exclusive content that addresses key technology issues in the WebSphere market, including:

Ø   Articles that cover WebSphere technology and business issues, including profiles of WebSphere innovators, and features such as tuning for WebSphere Application Server and securing the WebSphere environment

Ø   Tips and best practices for building, deploying and managing WebSphere applications

Ø   Product guides and industry analysis

Organizations today are realizing the value of WebSphere to extend their e-business environments while ensuring flexibility and scalability for their enterprise," said David Caddis, vice president, Application Infrastructure Management, Candle Corporation. WebSphere Insider underscores Candles commitment to providing education and solutions to optimize the WebSphere infrastructure, and provides a forum to share proven WebSphere best practices."

WebSphere Insider provides real-life and tangible best practices to address WebSphere in the enterprise," said Beth Gold-Bernstein, vice president, Strategic Services, ebizQ. It enables us to offer premier WebSphere content that complements our focus on e-business infrastructure. Since introducing WebSphere Insider in April, there have been 5,000 downloads of the newsletter, which underscores the market demand for best practices and real-world examples for optimizing WebSphere."

WebSphere Insider content is developed based upon established and emerging best practices for optimizing and designing WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere MQ projects. Candle consultants, IBM consultants and customers who have worked on WebSphere implementations provide real-world insight into key issues for optimizing WebSphere environments.

With a proven track record of delivering more than 2,000 successful WebSphere customer implementations, Candle combines technical expertise with practical insight from its global WebSphere deployments. Complementing its services expertise, Candle is regularly cited as a WebSphere management tools leader by industry analyst agencies, including Gartner Inc., META Group Inc. and WinterGreen Research Inc.

Additionally, Candles PathWAIÔ Monitor for WebSphere Application Server recently earned the Gold 2003 WebSphere Advisor Editors Choice Award. The award reflects the market demand for the Candle PathWAI solution portfolio that enables businesses to build, deploy and manage their WebSphere environments.

About Candle Corporation
Candle Corporation provides solutions to manage and optimize business-critical information technology infrastructures, systems and applications. Working across multiple enterprise IT environments, Candles offerings empower customers to track and maximize the business return associated with IT investments. More than 3,000 of the worlds largest companies use Candle products and consulting services, including 73 percent of the Global 100. With more than 5,000 customer sites in 60 countries, Candle is one of the worlds largest independent software and services companies. Candle is headquartered in El Segundo, California. For more information, visit www.candle.com.

About ebizQ
ebizQ is the definitive venue for business and IT professionals, vendors, and industry analysts to exchange information on business integration technologies, problems, and solutions. Singularly focused on business integration, ebizQ provides the most comprehensive and timely information available on vendors, products, market directions and best practices. ebizQ also provides vendors with a variety of innovative marketing solutions for reaching a highly qualified audience. http://www.ebizQ.net

Candle, the Candle logo, the Candle flame design and PathWAI are registered trademarks or trademarks of Candle Corporation. WebSphere is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Other product names and terms in this document may be trademarks of their respective companies.
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