ICS Finds the Sophisticated Side of PHP
by Alex Woodie

One of the attractions to PHP on System i is the low skills barrier to entry. Anybody who has written a lick of procedural PHP on any other platform can develop System i applications. But one of the lesser known advantages of PHP is its capability to scale up into the realm of object-oriented (OO) development to create more sophisticated applications. OO development was the basis for an award given to System i consultancy Independent Computer Services (ICS) by Zend, the company behind PHP.READ MORE >

LANSA Supports New 1SYNC Product Data Standard
by Alex Woodie

LANSA this month released an update to Data Sync Direct, its i5/OS- and Windows-based data synchronization tool designed to be used with 1SYNC's data pool platform for coordinating product information in supply chains. With the availability of Data Sync Direct version 6, LANSA is the first software vendor to support the new standards used by 1SYNC. The company also announced a co-marketing agreement with ERP developer QAD for Data Sync Direct. READ MORE >

Infor Unveils ERP LX Feature Pack 2
by Alex Woodie

Infor last week unveiled a new release of ERP LX, the i5/OS-based ERP suite it obtained last year with its acquisition of SSA Global. With ERP LX Feature Pack 2, the first release of the product under Infor, the company has added support for additional languages and currencies, time zone enhancements, and credit card processing capabilities. The company is also working to bring more capabilities to ERP LX in future feature packs. READ MORE >

Stampede Launches 'Virtual Pipelining' for Browsers
by Alex Woodie

At Interop last week, Stampede Technologies unveiled a new technology called Advanced Virtual Pipelining (AVP) that it claims can improve the performance of browser-based applications by 40 percent compared to existing wide area network (WAN) optimization controllers and techniques such as pipelining specified by HTTP 1.1. The capability will be made available next month as part of the release of Stampede Application Acceleration Series Release 2.READ MORE >