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In This Issue
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All the Product News That's Fit to Print.
Guild Companies is on holiday next week and will resume publishing July 7.
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 BYTWARE
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Sponsored By
 TRAILBLAZER SYSTEMS
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Directly on the AS/400
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Shipper Finds Data Caching Gives Big Bandwidth Boost to OS/400 HA
by Alex Woodie
International logistics operator Kuehne & Nagel is the first OS/400 shop to report exceptional results using a relatively new data caching technology to speed high availability replication across a WAN. The $6.7 billion Swiss corporation managed to stave off purchasing two additional T-1 lines to connect its primary and backup OS/400 servers in the United States and Canada by installing Expand Networks' data caching devices. K&N reports that these devices compressed its OS/400 replication stream by 500 percent, and now it has bandwidth for other applications. READ MORE >
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Silvon Develops Inventory Optimization Software for iSeries
by Alex Woodie
Business intelligence software vendor Silvon is set to ship a new application next month that helps manufacturers, distributors, and retailers keep inventory costs down. The new application, Inventory Performance Management, is designed to help companies minimize inventory, while continuing to meet performance objectives--a delicate balance, where cost savings can be found. The software runs on OS/400, Unix, and Windows and is the main enhancement in the Stratum 4.0 suite, which Silvon announced two weeks ago. READ MORE >
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Sponsored By
 COGLIN MILL
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· Extract and integrate legacy and ERP data, including JDE
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· Please call 507.282.4151 x45
Or, click www.coglinmill.com/events
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Sponsored By
 S4I SYSTEMS
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DASD Management got you down?
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PowerTech Seeks to Make Security Easy with NetworkSecurity 4.7
by Alex Woodie
PowerTech Group announced a new release of its OS/400 network security tool yesterday that's designed to be more flexible and easier to use for busy OS/400 systems administrators who don't have the time to become security experts. With PowerLock NetworkSecurity Version 4.7, available next month, the company has delivered several enhancements, including the new Easy Transaction Analyzer, Rule Version Control, and Dynamic Authority Manager features, as well as new port scanning capabilities and support for customized exit points. READ MORE >
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Manhattan to Deliver RFID Middleware Later This Year
by Alex Woodie
Manhattan Associates has committed to developing new software that will allow companies to plug radio frequency identification, or RFID, technology into any ERP or warehouse management system, on all major platforms. Manhattan says its new product, RFID Middleware, will meet the increased demand for RFID technologies that it expects in the future. Much of this demand could stem from one company, Wal-Mart, which recently announced it will require suppliers to use RFID technology by 2005. 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
 INTEGRATED PRINT SOLUTIONS
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Print any iSeries document
to Any Printer, Any Time, Any Place
IPS offers the OnePrint solution for
AFP/IPDS printing from iSeries systems
to any network printers or remote clients.
OnePrint supports printing on laser,
inkjet and impact printers, providing
an efficient approach to distributing
legacy print across your enterprise.
For information or a free trial
call 800-873-0900 or visit www.ipslc.com
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ACOM Debuts Document, Check, and Label Design Tool
by Dan Burger
Companies looking to reduce costs by eliminating preprinted forms always face designing those forms internally, which makes the design tool an important aspect in the decision-making process. That's why ACOM Solutions developed a new WYSIWYG, 32-bit, GUI-based form, check, and label-design tool. The new design tool is PC-resident, running on all current versions of Microsoft Windows. It exchanges document designs and modifications interactively with the iSeries and AS/400, through an innovative, bidirectional Java-based file-transfer utility. READ MORE >
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News Briefs and Product Shorts
SEAGULL Uses JCA to Connect J2EE Developers with Legacy Systems . . . Collins & Aikman, a Big BPCS Shop, Outsources IT Dept. to Infocrossing . . . Curl Takes Technology to Japan with Product Update, New Business Partner . . . iWork Software Wastes No Time with Second Product in Now Suite . . . Camstar Offers Multi-Site Manufacturers New Connector for J.D. Edwards Software . . . Epson to Ship POS Printer with Embedded ID Scanner . . . 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 >
Correction
The article "Maximum Availability Adds Dynamic Database Support to HA Software" has been corrected since it was first published. A working copy of *noMAX is set up on a prospect's machines for 30 days, not three days, as originally stated. Guild Companies regrets the error. [Correction made 6/18/03.]
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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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