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Volume 8, Number 39 -- October 28, 2008
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Vision Integrates Clustering Tool into IBM's New Web Console
by Alex Woodie

Users of Vision Solutions' high availability software can now manage their HA and clustering setups through IBM's Systems Director Navigator for i5/OS console, the vendor announced last week. By integrating Vision Cluster1 with the new Web-based management console, Vision has allowed its customers to mange more of their critical operations from a single console, rather than jumping around to different interfaces. READ MORE >

Databorough Teams with Genuitec to Push Alternative Eclipse IDE
by Alex Woodie

If imitation truly was the sincerest form of flattery, the IT industry would be awash in butterflies and rainbows. But it's not, and instead imitation is a tool in the Darwinian quest for survival. One of today's top imitators is Genuitec, which sells a development environment that seeks to deliver all the features of IBM's Rational Application Developer, but at a lower price. Last week Genuitec announced a new partnership with i OS modernization experts Databorough that should yield product by early 2009. READ MORE >


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CDW Taps Linoma for Database Encryption
by Alex Woodie

When CDW needed a way to encrypt the data in its i5/OS business applications, the computer retailer turned to Linoma Software and its Crypto Complete offering. While the product provided a relatively straightforward method for automating the encryption of fields in DB2/400, the real challenge for CDW was integrating the encryption routines across hundreds of different System i programs, a task that Linoma's technical service professionals helped CDW accomplish. READ MORE >


Lawson Delivers Demand Planning, BI Tools to M3 Customers
by Alex Woodie

Every company that manufactures stuff tries to accurately predict demand for their products. But for companies in the food and beverage industry, the equation is riddled with additional variables, such as the relatively short shelf life of products, that make the process more difficult. To that end, Lawson Software last week announced two new demand planning applications for its M3 ERP suite to help customers juggle these variables. It also announced a new business intelligence solution for food and beverage customers. READ MORE >




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Shop-Vac Ditches IBM, Taps CYBRA for Native i OS RFID Software
by Alex Woodie

Shop-Vac, the Pennsylvania-based manufacturer of wet-dry vacuum cleaners and one of Wal-Mart's 600 biggest suppliers, recently ditched a non i OS-based RFID application from IBM in exchange for CYBRA's native System i-based RFID software, the New York software vendor announced last week. READ MORE >


News Briefs and Product Shorts:

• Agilysys Eliminates a Layer of Management, Names New CEO

• Maximum Availability Touts *noMAX Install at Fonterra

• PlanetJ Puts the WOW into Multi Database Search

• IBM Touts UC Victory at Hyatt

• Global's Executive Dash Gets Closer Hooks to Excel


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
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Advertising Sales Representative: Kim Reed
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Vision Integrates Clustering Tool into IBM's New Web Console

Databorough Teams with Genuitec to Push Alternative Eclipse IDE

CDW Taps Linoma for Database Encryption

Lawson Delivers Demand Planning, BI Tools to M3 Customers

Shop-Vac Ditches IBM, Taps CYBRA for Native i OS RFID Software

News Briefs and Product Shorts:

Agilysys Eliminates a Layer of Management, Names New CEO . . . Maximum Availability Touts *noMAX Install at Fonterra . . . PlanetJ Puts the WOW into Multi Database Search . . . IBM Touts UC Victory at Hyatt . . . Global's Executive Dash Gets Closer Hooks to Excel . . .


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