Steve Gillmor interviews IBM's [Ken Bisconti] on their [Work Place] Fat Client/Web Services Browser model. Think of a relatively lightweight Middle Ware stack on the client which consists of a RunTime environment - a mini-app server (Application Server) if you will - that's based on some services we get from our [Web Sphere] Everyplace colleagues... It includes a [Cloud Scape] Data Store, a relational lightweight embedded relational store that we acquired when we bought [Informix Software] but have developed forward... It includes provisioning technology both from Tivoli as well as from the Eclipse effort, and also bidirectional replication based on SyncML - using Lotus Notes-quality replication methods but based on a more open SyncML method that's also more conducive to synchronization with non-PC (PDA) devices. And then on top of that, we deliver a user experience and a programmability and extensibility model based on top of EClipse... over the past couple of years, there've also been efforts - one of them called Equinox - to recognize the Eclipse environment as a pretty attractive RunTime environment as well, not just an environment for building programming tools.

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