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Volume 6, Number 10 -- March 7, 2006
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Original Software Unveils TestDrive-Gold
by Alex Woodie

Colin Armitage, chief executive of testing tool specialist Original Software, parses few words when it comes to describing the state of automated testing tools. "Test automation, as it's been for the last 15 years, has largely failed. It just doesn't work," he says. "A whole bunch of people have tried to do automated testing. They just failed." The British company hopes to rekindle people's interest in testing tools for Web and Windows front-ends with a new product unveiled today: TestDrive-Gold. READ MORE >

Konica Minolta Signs Up for JScribe, Unveils New Printers and Software
by Alex Woodie

It was a busy week for Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., the New Jersey-based subsidiary of the Japanese office printer giant, which last week unveiled two new multi-function printers (MFPs), three new software solutions, and announced that it's working with IBM to incorporate into its hardware and software a new print monitoring technology from IBM called JScribe. READ MORE >


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GlobeRanger's RFID Technology to Find Way Into OS/400 Shops
by Alex Woodie

SSA Global and GlobeRanger announced an OEM partnership last week that will see SSA Global re-sell GlobeRanger's radio frequency identification (RFID) middleware, called iMotion. The Texas-based GlobeRangers have also signed an OEM agreement with a Tennessee company called IDentiTRAK Technologies that implemented an iMotion-based solution at a large OS/400 account faced with satisfying Wal-Mart's RFID desires. READ MORE >


Tango/04 Adds Record-Level Auditing to iSeries Security Tool
by Alex Woodie

iSeries and Windows shops faced with regulatory compliance initiatives are the intended users of Tango/04 Computing Group's VISUAL Security Suite version 1.5, which was unveiled last week. By adding support for record-level auditing for DB2/400 and SQL Server databases, and, shortly, the Oracle database, the Spanish software company hopes to attract small and medium-sized businesses faced with new requirements to more closely monitor changes to their data. READ MORE >





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News Briefs and Product Shorts:

JDEtips Delivers 2006 Tax Updates for J.D. Edwards Apps . . . IBM Debuts New Password Reset, Synchronization Software . . . American Software Unveils New Document Management Software . . . CommuniGate Unveils Clustered Version of Collaboration Software . . . NetIQ Delivers Better Support for Oracle, Windows Servers with Security Manager 5.5 . . . Infor Customer Chooses to Adapt Rather Than Rip and Replace . . .



Reader Feedback and Insights

We value your feedback and insights.  Feel free to send a letter to the editor.  Letters may be printed, unless otherwise specified, and edited for clarity or length. READ MORE >


 
Editor: Alex Woodie
Contributing Editors: Dan Burger, Joe Hertvik,
Shannon O'Donnell, Timothy Prickett Morgan
Publisher and Advertising Director: Jenny Thomas
Advertising Sales Representative: Kim Reed
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