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Byline: Murray Coleman
Investor's Business Daily
Big Blue likes to be in the middle. Ed Kilroy, a top e-commerce manager for IBMCorp., says two-thirds of the company's $13 billion annual software revenue can be traced to its middleware.
What's middleware? Simply put, it's the programming that performs most of the heavy lifting between servers and applications. As business-to-business e-commerce becomes more common, middleware becomes critical. It helps direct a smoo
th flow behind the scenes for most B2B customers.
Kilroy says B2B will go mainstream only as middleware improves. He recently spoke with Investor's Business Daily about the software.
IBD: The stock market hasn't been kind to B2B of late.