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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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Protect Your Investment in Synon with LANSA
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Synon customers are increasingly turning to LANSA to enhance their applications for the Internet, XML, or to take advantage of Java. This approach lets you continue to use a product that has served your company well and enables your business to embrace new technologies, without compromising your investment.
www.lansa.com
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Sponsored By
 ASNA
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Make solutions, not excuses:
ASNA releases Visual RPG for .NET!
"When comparing AVR for .NET to other products, it is much more cost effective and easier to use which yields much greater productivity."
--Mike Fonner, Telephone Service Co.
AVR for .NET is now available!
www.asna.com/infoavrdotnet.aspx
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Aldon Tightens Integration to WDSc with Affiniti Change Manager
by Alex Woodie
For OS/400 shops developing with the WebSphere Development Studio client tools from IBM, Aldon Computer Group late last week introduced Affiniti 4.0, a new version of its Java-based, software change management system. Affiniti, which debuted in 2001, was created to manage the development of the new class of multiplatform e-business applications--for example, a WebSphere Commerce store front application running on a Windows server and connecting to an OS/400-based order management application. READ MORE >
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Ministry Finds Good Use for Business Intelligence Software
by Alex Woodie
The standard business-intelligence case study goes like this: Company A implements data warehousing system B to make higher profits by selling the right product, at the right time, to the right group of people. This case study is a little different. It has to do with how a religious organization, Focus on the Family, is using business intelligence software from Coglin Mill and SPSS to do its job more effectively, which is spreading its message of family values and faith in God. 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
 ITERA
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Echo2 High Availability --
Affordable, Reliable, Easy-to-Use
Reliable, state-of-the-art high availability isn't as expensive and complex as you might think. Not only does Echo2 cost about half of other solutions, it so automated and self-managing that operation of the system can be done in less than an hour a day and production-to-backup switchovers can be accomplished in minutes.
For your Free whitepaper, "An Introduction to iSeries High Availability," call 1-800-957-4511, email us at info@iterainc.com, or visit www.iterainc.com.
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PKWARE Ships New OS/400 Software, Moves to Solidify ZIP Encryption
by Alex Woodie
PKWARE shipped new compression software Monday that allows OS/400 and mainframe shops to share large files (4 GB and up) with Windows and Unix shops. The Brown Deer, Wisconsin, company also announced it has filed a patent application for the process it uses to encrypt compressed files, in an attempt to "coax" other developers of ZIP compression software to settle on a single, standardized technique for applying strong encryption to the ZIP file format. READ MORE >
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HiT Middleware Delivers Fast DB2/400 Access for .NET Apps
by Alex Woodie
Developers looking to optimize DB2/400 access to their new Microsoft .NET applications may want to check out HiT Software's latest data access middleware. The San Jose, California, company recently launched Ritmo 2.0, an updated version of its ADO.NET data provider, which comes in two flavors: regular and iSeries. With this release, Ritmo supports new data types, the double-byte character set, and features other enhancements aimed at improving performance. READ MORE >
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Sponsored By
 PROFOUND LOGIC SOFTWARE
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Would you like to be able to look at RPG code and make sense of it in a fraction of the time it used to take?
Thousands of programmers have adopted RPG-Alive, and are now able to read and understand RPG code 2 to 3 times faster.
SEU and PC-based version available!
Get your copy of RPG-Alive now . . .
www.RPGAlive.com/now
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Sponsored By
 DAMON TECHNOLOGIES
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RSP
RPG Server Pages
The Evolution of RPG
When dynamic web content is what your company needs, there is no better
choice than RSP.
Don't settle for CGI. RSP is a web application server, built for the iSeries. Built for speed.
Download your free copy of
RPG Server Pages today!
www.damontech.com
Evolve
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NetManage Takes First Step Toward Consolidating Products
by Alex Woodie
NetManage will soon consolidate its two major legacy connectivity product lines, according to a company initiative announced Monday. As part of its new Host Access Platform branding strategy, the development component of OnWeb, NetManage's host integration solution, will become more like RUMBA, the company's widely used, but aging, line of terminal emulation software for OS/400 and mainframe hosts. NetManage plans to ship a new release of OnWeb next month, which RUMBA customers should find familiar yet easier to use. READ MORE >
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News Briefs and Product Shorts
Home At Last: Woolrich Makes the Move from Windows Web Site to iSeries . . . Bytware Supports SMS Paging Service with Message Management Utilities . . . Trend Micro Plans Support for Domino 5.6 with OS/400 Anti-Virus Tool . . . Island Pacific Reselling ASC Reporting Tool with MMS Suite . . . Symbol Rolls Out Latest Member of 'Ruggedized' Scanner Line . . . Jacada Terminal Emulator 5.0 Gives FTP a Thinner Profile . . . READ MORE >
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Reader Feedback and Insights
Readers respond to "Biometrics Ready to Replace Passwords, Vendors Say" . . . 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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