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Volume 4, Number 24 -- June 15, 2004


 
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In Server Consolidations, Knowledge Means Power
by Alex Woodie

Before jumping onto the server consolidation bandwagon and leaving all those Wintel boxes behind, it behooves the good administrator to do his homework first. Accurately monitoring your applications' consumption of server, storage, and network resources can mean the difference between a server consolidation project that ends like the one in IBM's new i5 TV commercial, and slinking into the CIO's office to request another $100,000. A new service from DYS Analytics helps eliminate guesswork in Domino server consolidations. READ MORE >

 

Lakeview Says XSM Shows Promise As Young Technology for HA
by Alex Woodie

The latest release of OS/400 contains a new high availability capability called Cross Site Mirroring (XSM), which gives iSeries shops an entirely new way to replicate data to off-site backup machines. XSM allows you to mirror one independent Auxiliary Storage Pool to another on a remote machine. Lakeview Technology is supporting XSM with its own OS/400 mirroring software, called MIMIX, and says XSM shows promise as a technology, just like remote journaling before it. READ MORE >


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Moving Beyond RPG: mrc-Productivity Series Evolves Openness
by Alex Woodie

Michaels, ross & cole has officially opened the kimono. The longtime provider of an OS/400 fourth generation language (4GL) development environment is in the early stages of rolling out a new flagship development environment that can live on any platform. While the new tools don't yet have a formal name, and won't generate RPG, they will be largely based on the established mrc-Productivity Series development environment, and feel equally at home running on OS/400, Unix, Windows, and Linux platforms. READ MORE >

 

Bowstreet Brings 'Portlet Factory' to iSeries
by Alex Woodie

Java tools maker Bowstreet last week announced OS/400 support in its Portlet Factory for WebSphere, a rapid application development tool for creating Web-based portal applications. As its name suggests, Portlet Factory for WebSphere works with IBM's WebSphere Portal Server Express software, running on an iSeries or other server platforms, and enables the rapid development and delivery of customizable portal applications, all without Java programming. READ MORE >

 
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  News Briefs and Product Shorts

CNX's ATOMIC Goes 'Lean' . . . Tier-One Auto Supplier Standardizes on MAPICS . . . Cooper-Standard Finds Help for Large Paper Problem . . . Innovatum and Seagull Scientific Become Partners for FDA Compliance Solution . . . Software Simulates Attacks on Your Web Apps . . . Adobe Announces New 'LiveCycle' Electronic Document Management Software . . . READ MORE >




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
Managing Editor: Shannon Pastore
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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THIS ISSUE
SPONSORED BY:

Bytware
LANSA
Quadrant Software
iMessaging Systems
Twin Data


BACK ISSUES

TABLE OF
CONTENTS
In Server Consolidations, Knowledge Means Power

Lakeview Says XSM Shows Promise As Young Technology for HA

Moving Beyond RPG: mrc-Productivity Series Evolves Openness

Bowstreet Brings 'Portlet Factory' to iSeries

News Briefs and Product Shorts




The Four Hundred
The eServer i5 Versus Windows Servers

The i5s Start Shipping with Predictable Fits and Starts

IBM Tests eServer i5s on SAP Benchmark

Four Hundred Guru
Pooling Your DataSources

Don't Let Overrides Deceive You

Query/400 and Multiple Detail Lines

Four Hundred Monitor




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