Today 30th of April 2012, IBM made two announcements.

First the IBM Mobile Foundation, this new software portfolio provides a toolkit to create new mobile application from the connectivity with Cast Iron, build & development (IBM Worklight and free technical resources on developerWorks), manage and secure (IBM Endpoint Manager) and a set of services to capitalize solutions (IBM Quick Win Pilot).

Secondly, the IBM PureSystems, with the IBM Virtual Pattern kit for Developers which allows developer to create their own plugin and pattern for PureSystems. The developers is able to create its own components, links and policies for pattern. Look at the developerWorks article to know more on “Create and customize virtual application patterns“