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OS/400 Edition
Volume 2, Number 11 -- March 19, 2002
In This Issue
All the Product News That's Fit to Print.
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iTera Boosts Performance of OS/400 File Reorg Tool
by Alex Woodie


iTera recently started shipping a new version of its OS/400 file reorganization tool, Reorganize While Active Version 3.1, that it says runs faster and takes up less disk space than the version it replaces. While iTera officials are not saying how it works for fear of giving its competitors an advantage, the company says users can expect to see a 40 percent performance increase and a one-for-one improvement in the amount of disk space it requires compared to Version 2.
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Bynari's iSeries Email App Replaces Microsoft Exchange
by Kurt A. Mueffelmann


AS/400 and iSeries shops looking to replace their Microsoft Exchange email servers can add another option to their lists. Last week, Bynari announced the availability of its Linux-based email server for iSeries servers running OS/400 V5R1. InsightServer Enterprise Edition 3.0, company executives say, is a virtual plug-in-and-play replacement for Exchange and about half of the 200 million Outlook clients worldwide.
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NeuVis Software Ships RAD Tool for OS/400
by Alerx Woodie


NeuVis Software last week started shipping the next version of its integrated development environment for building and deploying enterprise Java applications. Using NeuArchitect 4.0--a model-driven rapid application development (RAD) tool that automatically generates compiled code that runs on a wide variety of operating systems and Web application servers, including OS/400 and WebSphere--companies can build e-business extensions for their existing data stores and application logic, and deploy them in n-tier fashion.
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SoftLanding's Change Management Tools Support LANSA
by Dan Burger


Developers building Internet, intranet and wireless applications that access and update iSeries and Windows NT/2000 data using LANSA 4GL applications have a new reason to consider change management software. SoftLanding Systems recently released LanTurn 5.0, the latest version of the company's TurnOver Change Management software that interfaces to the LANSA development environment. LanTurn supports both LANSA for the Web and Visual LANSA.
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PentaSafe Allows "What If?" Testing for OS/400 Security
by Alex Woodie


Changing the security settings of OS/400 can be a scary thing. What if you made a change that caused your company's application to behave incorrectly, or put an unnecessary security hold on the completion of live transactions? PentaSafe Security Technologies has addressed these scenarios by announcing a new rev of its OS/400 security software suite that includes a new "What If" capability that allows security administrators to test changes to remote access security settings before rolling them into full production.
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New Briefs and Product Shorts


ASNA Says Attendance Up at ASNApalooza . . . Sand Technology Signs Agreement for BusinessObjects to Be Used as an Alternative Interface to Nucleus . . . JDA Software Group Announces New Release of Arthur Analytics Suite . . . Precise Software Solutions Acquires Exclusive Rights to Sell EMC's Luminate Analysis Suite for SAP's R/3 ERP suite . . . Williams Bio Energy to Use Bostech's ChainBuilder EAI Suite . . . MAPICS Announces Enhancements to Supply Chain Management Apps.

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THIS ISSUE
SPONSORED BY:
Aldon Computer Group
COMMON
BCD Int'l
Tramenco
RJS Software Systems
Affirmative Computer
BACK ISSUES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
iTera Boosts Performance of OS/400 File Reorg Tool
Bynari's iSeries Email App Replaces Microsoft Exchange
NeuVis Software Ships RAD Tool for OS/400
SoftLanding's Change Management Tools Support LANSA
PentaSafe Allows "What If?" Testing for OS/400 Security
News Briefs and Product Shorts

Editor
Alex Woodie

Managing Editor
Shannon Pastore

Conributing Editors:
Joe Hertvik
Timothy Prickett Morgan
Shannon O'Donnell
Dan Burger

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