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Midrange Stuff - Hardware, Software & Services
OS/400 Edition
Volume 2, Number 13 -- April 2, 2002
In This Issue
All the Product News That's Fit to Print.
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SSA GT to Purchase PRMS from Computer Associates?
by Alex Woodie


SSA Global Technologies is in talks to purchase the PRMS ERP system from Computer Associates, according to an industry source. An official with SSA GT, a Chicago company that supports and sells the popular OS/400-based BPCS ERP system for manufacturers and distributors, would not confirm whether the rumor was true. The official did, however, allow that such an acquisition would possess "synergy" and that the industry is in a period of consolidation.
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SEAGULL Partners with Metaserver for BPI
by Alex Woodie


Metaserver and SEAGULL last week announced they've formed a strategic partnership, in which the companies have integrated their applications and begun reselling each other's software. The deal involves Metaserver's business-process-integration modeling tool and distributed runtime environment and SEAGULL's Transidiom, a development tool designed to generate XML, Java, or COM interfaces from OS/400 and mainframe applications. By uniting their offerings, the companies hope to make it easier to incorporate "legacy" assets into the new world of Web services.
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Sponsored By
COMMON

Attend the COMMON IT Conference in Nashville, April 14-18


We've posted a lot of new information on the COMMON Users Group's Spring 2002 IT Education Conference & Expo, April 14-18 at Opryland in Nashville

After you complete the conference registration, stay online and make your hotel arrangements at Opryland. You'll want to stay here, because Opryland is our total conference facility. For assistance, please call 800-270-8223.

Kisco Douses Security Concerns at Seagrave Fire Apparatus
by Robert Gast


Seagrave Fire Apparatus began building its reputation making horse-drawn equipment for Midwestern fire departments. The company, with a history dating back to 1881, now builds fire trucks and emergency vehicles for organizations around the world. Things are very busy at Seagrave these days, and there is no occasion for down time. Craftsmen at the company's Clintonville, Wisconsin, headquarters are working continuously to get 54 new fire trucks out the door and into service for the New York City Fire Department.
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Infinium inAbles Choice for Users of Customized Apps
by Alex Woodie


Companies that have customized their Infinium applications now have an easier way to convert green screens into Web interfaces and avoid excess OS/400 licensing fees related to interactive processing. Two weeks ago, Infinium announced the general availability of inAbler, a redevelopment tool that is designed to extend the business logic and interfaces of older, customized Infinium applications to the Internet, and to reduce customers' concerns that customized code may provide compatibility problems with new releases of Infinium applications.
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Sponsored By
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TRAMENCO

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Continue your training and education with some of the industry's greatest minds leading you through what's hot in RPG, Java, Websphere, SQL, systems operations. There's something for everyone -- and it's all within a beautiful five-star resort in sunny Florida.

To register, call 800-897-5923 or go to www.tramenco.com/naples

MKS Broadens iSeries' Role in Change Management
by Alex Woodie


MKS has announced the availability of Implementer 5.3, the latest release of the company's software change-management solution for AS/400 and iSeries servers. While this release provides numerous enhancements to the ways in which application developers can control the updating and installing of software on OS/400 servers, company officials say the highlight of this release is the tighter integration that MKS has built between Implementer and Source Integrity Enterprise, its flagship change management solution for open systems.
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SilverStream Tackles New WSFL Spec
by Alex Woodie


SilverStream, one of the vendors of Web application servers and J2EE development tools trying to make a go of it against formidable competition from IBM and BEA Systems, announced the general availability of new software last week. Leading a gaggle of new product releases in SilverStream's lineup is eXtend Composer 3.5, which features a new business-process-manager module for integrating existing business logic into new e-business applications, and support for the new Web Services Flow Language.

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News Briefs and Product Shorts


Affirmative Updates 5250 Emulator with GUI Functionality . . . AITE Issues Web-enabled Insurance App for iSeries . . . J.D. Edwards Appoints New Chairman . . . AMR Research Looks into ERP Upgrades . . . IBM's WebSphere Translation Server 2.0 First with Bidirectional English-Chinese Support . . . Gartner Says Most Small and Midsize Businesses Unprepared for Disaster . . . DataMirror Announces Two New Deals . . . Maximum Availability Is Not Still in Beta . . .
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THIS ISSUE
SPONSORED BY:
ACOM Solutions
Aldon Computer Group
BCD Int'l
COMMON
Profound Logic Software
Tramenco
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
SSA GT to Purchase PRMS from Computer Associates?
SEAGULL Partners with Metaserver for BPI
Kisco Douses Security Concerns at Seagrave Fire Apparatus
Infinium inAbles Choice for Users of Customized Apps
MKS Broadens iSeries' Role in Change Management
SilverStream Tackles New WSFL Spec
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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