Information Design (IDI), a systems integration firm specializing in middleware technologies, has released IQBridge, the latest addition to its IQ family of products. IQBridge can traverse from any leading middleware product to any other one and back again. “The IQBridge just drops into your middleware architecture and quickly enables you to use all of your software applications without having to change a thing,” said IDI’s president, Ian Kinkade. “Furthermore, when you use IDI’s IQBridge, it doesn’t matter whether you were using IBM MQSeries, Microsoft Message Queue, BEA MessageQ, or Tuxedo, our IQBridge supports them all.”

IQBridge uses a ‘half bridge’ construction, which provides a cost effective means to gain total platform and middleware independence. A company using IQBridge can move information from one system to another within a messaging architecture, regardless of the messaging middleware transport, and acquire total communication connectivity. IQBridge adapts to the specifications required by each different middleware product, thus eliminating the need to rewrite application code. IDI’s dynamic architectural approach to bridging maintains protocol integrity while it facilitates bi-directional connectivity to multiple technologies.

The number of ‘half bridges’ per middleware protocol to be deployed within an enterprise is dependent on the message throughput and messaging communication redundancy requirements. The performance of IQBridge is based on the speed of the messaging middleware products within the environment, which are currently being utilized.

IQBridge is commercially available on OpenVMS, HP UX, Sun Solaris, Windows NT, and any of the major LINUX releases. Pricing for the IQBridge is based on the number of processors in a system.