IBM hopes to hit it big with its new Business Integration Game (BIG) technology, which is a software system designed to throw third-party e-commerce and communication into the latest online role-playing and multiplayer video games. The BIG framework, which uses open standards such as SOAP and J2EE, lets game developers use standard Web services to build support for payment, shopping, trading and messaging capabilities directly into game environments, IBM said.
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IBM Debuts Software for Doing Biz in Virtual Worlds
Posted by: Jay Lyman November 25, 2003 01:37 PMIBM hopes to hit it big with its new Business Integration Game (BIG) technology, which is a software system designed to throw third-party e-commerce and communication into the latest online role-playing and multiplayer video games. The BIG framework, which uses open standards such as SOAP and J2EE, lets game developers use standard Web services to build support for payment, shopping, trading and messaging capabilities directly into game environments, IBM said.