Auto Parts Warehouse Picks eSP to Replace IBM Wireless Connection
by Alex Woodie

When IBM decided to abandon its Wireless Connection for AS/400 with OS/400 V5R1, many companies were left in the lurch to replace their wireless barcode scanning system. One of the companies that relied on Wireless Connection was Interamerican Motor Corp., a California company that imports and distributes foreign auto parts. Without a solid substitute, IMC had cycled through three different products since 2001, but eventually found what it considers a good replacement with eBusiness Solution Pros' Stay Linked OS/400 software. READ MORE >

GST Ships Super-AIT Tape Drives for iSeries, Open Systems
by Alex Woodie

GST last week announced the availability of its newest line of iSeries-compatible tape drives using Sony Electronics' Super Advanced Intelligent Tape (SAIT-1) technology. With a compressed capacity of 1.3 TB (500 GB native), 108 GB per hour native transfer rate, and "write once, read many" capability, GST says its new SAIT-1 tape drives and library will appeal to midrange shops with large amounts of data to back up, or to those that need to tamper-proof their archives to comply with new regulations. READ MORE >

Expand Networks Keeps Rolling with New Products, Customers
by Alex Woodie

Expand Networks, a manufacturer of network compression and acceleration appliances, has started 2004 with a bang. Yesterday the Roseland, New Jersey, company announced its largest bandwidth optimization device yet, a box for large data centers that handles 200 Mbps of raw bandwidth and supports 1,500 WAN nodes. It also has two new customers in the insurance business: one that bought nearly 3,500 acceleration devices for $5 million, and another that reports up to 7:1 compression on MIMIX network replication. READ MORE >

FrontPage Server Extensions Comes to iSeries Linux
by Alex Woodie

iSeries shops that want to let users update their Apache Web sites using Microsoft's FrontPage Web authoring software can now do so using free software recently made available by Ready-to-Run Software. In accordance with a contract with IBM, Ready-to-Run in late December made the Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions available for iSeries, pSeries, and zSeries boxes running Novell's SuSE Linux 8.0 and the Apache Web server, providing FrontPage authors an alternative to Microsoft's own IIS Web Server. READ MORE >

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EXTOL Gets Certified to Provide End-to-End UCCnet Solution . . . Evant Launches New Supply Chain Products, Announces New Customers . . . CommercialWare Software Helps Retailers Locate Inventory in Stores, Warehouses . . . Magic Software's iBOLT Gets "Challenger" Status in META Group's EAI Roundup . . . Create!form Opens New Online Support Center for Customers on Maintenance . . . Vision Solutions Targets OS/400 and Windows Shops with "HA for 25K" Offering . . . READ MORE >

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