SugarCRM Gets an IBM i Solution Edition, New Social Media Connections
by Alex Woodie

SugarCRM last week passed another milestone on its quest to gain the respect and business of IBM i customers and business partners when it announced a joint solution edition with IBM at its SugarCon user conference. The Silicon Valley firm also announced new social media extensions for Sugar version 6, as well as the acquisition of iEnterprises' iExtensions, which gives SugarCRM new integration points with Lotus Notes. READ MORE >

New Open Source PHP Toolkit for IBM i in the Works
by Alex Woodie

IBM and Zend Technologies are expected to formally announce a new open source PHP Toolkit for IBM i at the COMMON conference in Minneapolis next month. IBM claims the new toolkit, which is currently in beta, will do a better, more transparent job of connecting PHP applications with IBM i programs and services than the old toolkit--an assertion that is rejected by the developer of the old toolkit, AURA Equipments. READ MORE >

Lawson Unveils New Software, as Infor's Offer Looms
by Alex Woodie

Despite the unsolicited offer from Infor that's looming over the heads of the company and its customers, Lawson Software tried its best to have a normal user conference last week in Boston, Massachusetts. Lawson responded to the challenge in the same way that many software companies would: it introduced new software and services, including an application marketplace, a new business intelligence tool, and the new tool for creating composite applications without coding. READ MORE >

Help/Systems Updates Job Scheduler GUI
by Alex Woodie

IBM i operators gain new insights into the state of their job scheduling environments with the latest release of Robot/SCHEDULE from Help/Systems. With version 11, the vendor has made several changes in the graphical Schedule Activity Monitor (SAM) that will enhance the capability of operators to oversee jobs running across IBM i, Windows, Linux, and Unix environments. READ MORE >