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Volume 5, Number 45 -- November 15, 2005

Four Hundred Stuff is taking a vacation next week and will resume publishing on Tuesday, November 29.


 
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Teamstudio Brings Domino Version Control to iSeries
by Alex Woodie

Regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA are spurring companies to lock down their IT environments in a variety of ways, including controls on development processes. Until now, most of the change management focus has been on so-called "traditional" environments, to the detriment of Lotus Notes and Domino. But that is starting to change, according to Domino experts at Teamstudio, which last week unveiled new support for OS/400- and AIX-based Domino servers with its two tools for managing changes to Domino databases, Snapper and CIAO! READ MORE >

 

Lawson Unveils "Skip Upgrade" for iSeries Customers
by Alex Woodie

Lawson Software formally announced its "skip upgrade" program that allows its iSeries customers to upgrade from older versions of the ERP system directly to the latest version of Lawson's software. Yesterday's announcement means that the 400 or so iSeries customers on an older release will be able to bypass an intermediate step and go straight to the latest, greatest version 8.1, thereby saving time and money during the implementation process. READ MORE >


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IBM Updates Virtualization Engine for Multiplatform Management
by Alex Woodie

Part of IBM's Systems Agenda is making it easier to manage groups of disparate servers, and one of the key deliverables in this area is Big Blue's Virtualization Engine technology. IBM last week announced updates to several Virtualization Engine technologies, including new capabilities for managing zSeries and pSeries servers from Virtualization Engine consoles, new workload management algorithms, and a new tool for visualizing the inter-dependencies of applications, even if they're not running on the same platform. READ MORE >

 

IBM Unveils New Midrange Storage Systems
by Alex Woodie

IBM last week unveiled two new network storage servers designed to help small and mid size businesses consolidate their storage. The N5000 range of devices can be equipped with Fibre Channel and SATA disk drives, can be clustered for high availability, and support multiple operating systems, including Windows, Unix, and Linux. The devices also support Linux and AIX partitions running on iSeries servers, but not i5/OS. READ MORE >

 

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   News Briefs and Product Shorts

Aldon Delivers Change Management Plug-Ins for Rational Application Developer, WDSc 6.0 . . . DB2 OLAP Server Users Get Reprieve from IBM . . . Neon Systems Helps OS/400 Shop Move to SOA . . . Idokorro Unveils 5250 Emulator for Nokia Cell Phones . . . American Mills Gets a Handle on Inventory with New Barcoding System . . . MIMIX ha1 for Windows to Get Flexible Bandwidth Scheduling . . . 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
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:

LANSA
Vision Solutions
MKS
Computer Keyes
Affirmative Computer


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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Teamstudio Brings Domino Version Control to iSeries

Lawson Unveils "Skip Upgrade" for iSeries Customers

IBM Updates Virtualization Engine for Multiplatform Management

IBM Unveils New Midrange Storage Systems

News Briefs and Product Shorts




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