This is a big story. WebSphere is the "flagship" "[application server]" [http://www-4.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/] from [COMPANY: IBM]. What that means in the year 2001 is a Web server, with a method for active content, plus convenience functions for database access, and at least lip service to load-leveling, security, and so on. Because it's IBM, WebSphere uses Java for as much as possible, and prefixes all descriptions with "e-commerce". The technical basis is * the IBM version of [Apache], * [DB2], and * WebSphere proper, which wraps the others. As one too-wise correspondent justly noted, "You need to be a DBA, Apache Administrator and a JAVA guru to do a clean install."