If you’re into application servers, you know who the two biggest players are - BEA and IBM. They control the lion’s share of the application server market, and if you want to reach the enterprises they serve, it makes a lot of sense to ensure your product plays nicely with theirs.

So in planning, designing, and programming IperiaVX, the team pulled together to develop a service creation platform that integrates seamlessly with both IBM’s WebSphere application server and SIP server as well as BEA’s WebLogic application server and SIP server.

The announcement of an agreement with BEA happened first, in April 2006. At the time, Mike McHugh, vice president and general manager of BEA WebLogic Communications Platform, had this to say:

“In today’s competitive telecom market, network operators require new and flexible communications infrastructure software that can enable them to quickly create and launch new services. We see the integration of BEA WebLogic SIP Server with Iperia’s standards-based approach … as a fundamental key to providing an adaptable solution that service providers can offer for real differentiation; we are pleased to partner with them in this effort.”

Then, in December 2006, Iperia made it official with IBM as well. Less than one year after being hired to guide the evolution of Iperia from unified communications to service creation platforms, Iperia CEO David Jodoin said:

“Our technical collaboration with IBM will enable Iperia to provide our customers with real, sustainable value. Equally important, it affords us – and our customers – the knowledge that the WebSphere platform is a proven middleware software and development platform for which many of our customers are already familiar.”

With IBM and BEA on board, and test implementations well under way, the momentum toward 6/26/07 began to pick up. Next up - putting together more information about IperiaVX, and explaining just what it could do for service providers and enterprise clients.