VAI Positions ERP Suite for Business Recovery
by Alex Woodie

This is a tough, but exciting, time to be in the ERP software business. Tough because businesses are hesitating to make big, multi-year commitments to technology platforms, but exciting because of the advances in technological innovation occurring in IT, and the new capabilities that brings to customers. One ERP software developer that's charging forward with tech development and new business models is VAI, which will be unveiling the latest update to its S2K suite at its annual user conference later this year. READ MORE >

Vision Merges HA Products Into MIMIX Availability 7
by Alex Woodie

Ever since Vision Solutions acquired rival Lakeview Technologies more than three years ago, Vision executives have talked about eventually merging the two companies' flagship products into a single entity. That union officially started yesterday, when Vision announced MIMIX Availability 7 for IBM i, which combines elements of Vision's old ORION HA product with MIMIX. Vision also unveiled MIMIX Global for managing MIMIX clusters and hybrid IBM i disk-based clustering environments. READ MORE >

Document Management Cuts Paper and Saves Money at Top Ranked City
by Robert Gast

While the virtues associated with living in an environmentally conscientious way are as abundant as wavy shafts of tan prairie grass in mid-summer, one motive that exerts considerable gravity in the heated conservation debate is that of money. Naperville, Illinois, a city with muscular environmental policies, is setting an example for other cities by further paring back the inefficient use of resources and lessening its impact on the environment while making better use of funds. READ MORE >

Trilobyte Keeps the Original 5250 Emulator Alive
by Alex Woodie

In the annals of AS/400 lore, there are two important Franks: Dr. Frank Soltis, the father of the AS/400, and Joe Frank, one of the architects of SSP, the precursor to OS/400 and today's IBM i OS. Joe Frank is also credited with being the father of 5250 emulation with a product he created in the early 1980s after leaving IBM Rochester. Frank passed away five years ago, but his business partners at Trilobyte< continue to support his original emulator with WinTronix IP Client TN5250e version 2.56. READ MORE >