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In This Issue
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All the Product News That's Fit to Print.
Sponsored By
 LANSA
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www.lansa.com
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Sponsored By
 SOFTLANDING SYSTEMS
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· Multi-platform deployment
TurnOver gives you the automation and control you need to bring sanity back to your workplace. Find out how, and get your FREE copy of Paul Conte's Software Development Survival Guide, at www.softlanding.com
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Centurion Rolls Out Full Service DR for Smaller OS/400 Shops
by Alex Woodie
Since it was established as a subsidiary of OS/400 banking software vendor Jack Henry & Associates seven years ago, Centurion has signed up approximately 60 percent, or 1,100, of Jack Henry software users as its own customers. In January, Centurion launched a new campaign to begin offering its disaster recovery services to the wide range of OS/400 shops working in industries besides banking. READ MORE >
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Museum's Search for Manageable Windows Server Leads to iSeries
by Alex Woodie
When the Asian Art Museum decided to move its digs to a new location in San Francisco, IT director Jim Horio wasn't thrilled about reassembling the hodgepodge of older Intel servers that had been running the museum's core applications. Each application required its own server, preventing a move to one of the large Intel-based symmetric multi-processor machines. Then Horio, a System/32 guy from way back, ran the numbers from an iSeries point of view and found them quite pleasing. READ MORE >
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Sponsored By
 ESTORAGE
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And until June 30, get an eStorage AIT-3 tape drive at a special low price!
Visit www.estorageinc.com/ait or call 800-598-9910 (949-453-7600 outside U.S.)
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Sponsored By
 S4I SYSTEMS
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DPS Launches Mobile Order Entry Application for PocketPC
by Alex Woodie
New software from Data Processing Services should make retrieval of OS/400-based information easier for sales representatives when they're out on the road. The Indianapolis software company last week announced the general availability of PocketFlash, a new database-driven application that gives sales representatives access to ERP-resident features and information--such as order creation, product availability, and order status--from the field using a Microsoft PocketPC-based handheld computer. READ MORE >
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Magic Backs iBOLT Strategy with New Release of eDeveloper
by Alex Woodie
Magic Software last week delivered much of the underlying technology that will be central to its iBOLT integration strategy with eDeveloper 9.4, which the company says is its biggest release of the fourth-generation-language development environment. Major new features include new XML, COM, and Java support, as well as support for standard messaging environments, including WebSphere MQ, MSMQ, and Java Messaging Services. Previously, eDeveloper supported only Magic Software's own proprietary messaging environment. READ MORE >
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Sponsored By
 CMS MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS
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"With CMS/400, we are better able to apply Just-in-Time (JIT) production concepts to our operations in a very straightforward manner that does not require lots of people. The information we need is simply a by-product of the application."
Larry Coe, Manager of Information Systems
McNairn Packaging
CMS/400 – ERP for small & midrange manufacturers. E-mail sales@cms400.com for a no obligation test-drive, or go to www.cms400.com.
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Sponsored By
 FAST400
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Tired of paying too much for Interactive Cards for your iSeries server?
With Fast400, you will never need to pay IBM's interactive tax again.
Fast400 "tunes" your iSeries so you can use the full power of your processor.
For a free demo, visit www.fast400.net.
For personal assistance please call Colin Wells in London at (44) 7766 072 578 or send an
e-mail to cwells@fast400.net.
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Create!form Adds Scanning Capabilities to Archive Application
by Alex Woodie
Create!form International is introducing new capabilities for scanning hard-copy documents into its electronic archive. Next week the Waltham, Massachusetts, software company will begin shipping a new version of Create!archive that allows users to scan paper-based documents into the archive using high-volume Kofax scanners and low-volume Hewlett-Packard scanners, and even directly from Windows programs, in addition to capturing spool files directly as they come off the print queue. READ MORE >
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News Briefs and Product Shorts
Maple Leaf Foods Goes Six Sigma with Kronos iSeries Central . . . Group 1 Software Updates OS/400 Mailing Address Validation Utilities . . . CommercialWare Updates Flagship Catalog and Mail-Order Management Application . . . Zephyr Lures Disenfranchised Attachmate Users with Macro Conversion Tool . . . WS-I Issues Beta of Two Web Services Tools . . . California Software Updates Web-to-Host Software . . . READ MORE >
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Reader Feedback and Insights
We value your feedback and insights on the OS/400 market. Feel free to send a letter to the editor. We will consider your letter a candidate for the reader feedback column for this newsletter, but we will contact you before we make your e-mail public. READ MORE >
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Editor: Alex Woodie
Managing Editor: Shannon Pastore
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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