"They are trying to make this more seamless between an existing MQ infrastructure and a Websphere application server-based messaging infrastructure," Robinson said. This would allow Websphere applications and other applications on MQ to trade data more readily.

An IBM spokesperson verified the announcement on the company's website was genuine, but declined to confirm the June 17 release date.

Next week, IBM will be holding its conference for IBM middleware, , where IBM executives will no doubt reveal more about the upcoming Websphere release.

The IDG News Service