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OS/400 Edition
Volume 3, Number 29 -- July 29, 2003
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Organic Food Company First in U.S. to Purchase System21 Aurora
by Alex Woodie

To stay in business and grow, a company needs an edge. For Applegate Farms, that edge is selling natural and organic meat products, which have been a big hit with health-conscious consumers. But the lack of preservatives means that Applegate's products don't last as long on the shelves as their nitrate-laden rivals. To address this logistical problem, and to bring other parts of the business together, Applegate is installing Geac's System21 Aurora ERP suite, marking the first Aurora installation in the United States. READ MORE >

Show Business Sets Sights on iSeries Server Stats Solution
by Alex Woodie

Show Business Software, the English developer of IBM Lotus Notes/Domino business-intelligence software, is working on new iSeries software that will allow administrators to create graphical reports detailing the performance of their iSeries Domino servers. Company spokespeople say the solution, which IBM employees hit upon during a live demonstration at this year's LotusSphere, in Orlando, Florida, is also paving the way for the company to more fully support native iSeries data. READ MORE >

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ASC Offers Tool for Expanding UPC Fields
by Dan Burger

What do you know about UPC codes used within the United States? What about the codes used everywhere else? And, more important, why should you care? Please read on. If your company does manufacturing or retailing in the United States or Canada, you should be familiar with the 12-digit UPC codes for product identification. However, the rest of the world is singing a different tune, and uses something called the EAN-UCC system. READ MORE >

Mohawk Paper Cuts Waste with Electronic Forms and Payment System
by Victor Wortman

Mohawk Paper Company's accounting services department used to have a list of problems associated with check printing. To begin with, it needed two dot matrix production printers to issue its accounts payable and payroll checks. It wasn't that there were so many checks to print, but that one printer had to be at the ready, in case the other broke down. That happened more than once, but it wasn't the only problem, or necessarily the biggest. READ MORE >

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Linoma Software Issues New Release of RPG Toolbox Conversion Utility
by Alex Woodie

Linoma Software last week issued a major new release of RPG Toolbox, a programmer productivity tool for maintaining RPG code and converting it to RPG IV or the new free-form syntax. RPG Toolbox Version 3.11 contains several enhancements, including a new command supporting the free-format spec. It also bundles several older enhancements and fixes issued since the last major release of RPG Toolbox, Version 3.0, last fall. READ MORE >

News Briefs and Product Shorts

IBM Delivers an Action-Packed Summer Thriller: 'The Legends of iSeries' . . . Gumbo Software Issues New Releases of Report Manager and Report Designer . . . Newell Rubbermaid Chooses CCSS for iSeries Systems Management . . . BOSaNOVA Ships New Wireless 802.11b Kit for Thin Client Terminals . . . Rock Bottom Prices for Xdata solutions ERP . . . It Must Be the Heat . . . 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
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THIS ISSUE
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California Software
Aldon Computer Group
*noMAX
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iTera
DRV Technologies


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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Organic Food Company First in U.S. to Purchase System21 Aurora

Show Business Sets Sights on iSeries Server Stats Solution

ASC Offers Tool for Expanding UPC Fields

Mohawk Paper Cuts Waste with Electronic Forms and Payment System

Linoma Software Issues New Release of RPG Toolbox Conversion Utility

News Briefs and Product Shorts







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