Alaric Ports Card Payment Software to Power Linux Via Chiphopper

Published: September 12, 2006

by Alex Woodie

Alaric Systems, an English provider of credit card payment software, has completed the migration of its J2EE-based products to run on IBM's Power Linux platforms, as part of the IBM Systems Application Advantage for Linux, or Chiphopper Assurance program, the company announced last week.

Alaric's card payment software, called Authentic, has been certified to receive Chiphopper Assurance on the iSeries, pSeries, OpenPower, and JS20 blades platforms using Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The product has also been selected to receive the Ready for IBM Systems certification.

IBM launched its Chiphopper initiative in the spring of 2005 to make it easier for ISVs to support the various Linux distributions supporting its servers, including X64, Power, and mainframe platforms. The program includes a set of tools that ISVs can use to ensure their wares are compliant with the Linux Standards Base (LSB) 2.0 standard, and run on Red Hat and Novell's SuSE Linux distributions.

"Chiphopper provides multiple benefits for ISVs and systems integrators to migrate their Intel-based Linux applications to IBM platforms," says Mervin Amos, Alaric's chief technology officer. "Furthermore, it gives assurances that the applications will run seamlessly across Linux servers."