"Why was this the right time for IBM to acquire
Ascential Software?
"Jeff Jones: Information integration is a very
hot topic with our customers. Feedback we get from IT professionals
indicates that it's more and more crucial to get to information
wherever it might be, as opposed to figuring out a way to move it
to some central place before applications can get to it. As a
result, IBM has been investing heavily in information integration
since the mid-90s, when we came out with the product that is now
Websphere Information Integrator..."