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Volume 6, Number 19 -- May 16, 2006
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Infor to Buy SSA Global for $1.36 Billion
by Alex Woodie

Two of the largest vendors of OS/400 ERP software announced plans to merge Monday, creating what will be the third largest ERP vendor in the world. If it clears regulatory hurdles and is approved by shareholders, which looks likely, Infor's $1.36-billion bid for SSA Global will create a company with 37,000 customers, nearly 7,000 employees, and annual revenues of $1.6 billion. It would also create the biggest software vendor dedicated to iSeries development, and the largest enterprise software company outside of SAP and Oracle. READ MORE >

Beyond Security Checks for Unknown Vulnerabilities
by Alex Woodie

Beyond Security recently launched a new security vulnerability assessment tool designed to scour applications for any sort of security weakness, including commonly known problems and entirely new ones. Because the new tool, called beSTORM, works at the network protocol layer, it can work with any application, including those running on iSeries servers. beSTORM ferrets out security problems during the development cycle, and provides a more cost-effective alternative to hiring a team of "ethical hackers," company executives say. READ MORE >


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GetItRight Does ETL for Data Warehousing, And More
by Alex Woodie

Companies looking for a extract, transformation, and load (ETL) tool for extracting data from OS/400 applications may want to check out CTH Technologies's utility, called GetItRight. This program is used for pulling data from iSeries and other hosts directly through application screens, including terminal emulators, or through database connections. The software was recently certified to run on United Devices line of Grid MP computers, providing another alternative to traditional host-based ETL tools. READ MORE >


Aldon Adds Support for WDSc Lite
by Alex Woodie

Aldon last week announced support for WebSphere Development Studio Client Lite, the slimmer, faster version of IBM's integrated development environment (IDE) for OS/400 servers. With the new change management plug-in unveiled last week, programmers can now access the development and deployment control mechanisms of the Aldon Lifecycle Manager from within WDSc Lite, in the same way they did with the full WDSc release. READ MORE >





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News Briefs and Product Shorts:

IBM Lotus Toots Open Source Horn . . . Quadrant Bolsters Document Management with FastFax 4.7 . . . Kofax Ships Enterprise Version of Ascent Capture . . . LANSA Delivers Self-Service Web Site to Bermuda Insurance Company . . . EXTOL Adds Support for Linux in EDI Software . . . California Software Delivers Infinite OLAP Version 4 . . .



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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