My esteemed colleague, Matt Perrins, has just finished a new Redbook on building Ajax applications in a WAS environment. I commend it to your attention, if that kind of thing floats your boat! :)

IBM was named the ARC Overall Winner and Company of the Year in the Data & Information Management software category and received mention for the Volume Mainstream Business Servers category. The company was also awarded first place in the Support subcategory and in the Partnership subcategory.

More here.

Given that IBM sells IDS almost exclusively through the channel means that this must be an implicit endorsement of IBM's efforts with IDS.