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DataMirror Launches Hostile Takeover of Rival Vision Solutions
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
There probably are not many rivalries as intense as that which exists among the vendors of high availability and clustering software for the OS/400 platform. The big three companies in that market--DataMirror, Lakeview Technology and Vision Solutions--compete so fiercely with roughly equivalent but incompatible products that it is tough to imagine any of them ever merging. But by launching a hostile takeover for Idion Technology Holdings, Vision Solutions' parent company, last week, that is exactly what rival DataMirror obviously believes makes sound business sense.
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Fast400 OS/400 Governor Buster May Re-Emerge This Week
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
The TigerTools Web site may not be up anymore, but its email server is still working. TigerTools, I am sure you all remember, is the marketing company that was formed last year to launch the Fast400 OS/400 governor buster. The techies behind the tool, whose identities have not been revealed, chose a UK company called Storage Solutions Group, to take over the marketing of Fast400 in late November 2001. An email sent by TigerTools on behalf of Storage Solutions last week says it will re-launch the product this week.
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IBM Gives Trade-Ins on Vintage AS/400e Generation Servers
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
If you have a vintage AS/400e "Cobra4" and "Apache" generation server, IBM has a deal for you. Last week, IBM announced a special trade-in promotion designed to entice customers using vintage Model 170, 6XX, and SXX servers from the AS/400e generation to upgrade to modern Model 270 and 8XX iSeries servers. The AS/400e servers first started shipping in August 1997 and, with clock speeds ranging from 50 MHz to 125 MHz, they are a little long in the tooth.
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IBM Shipping Seagate Drives As iSeries Disk Problems Persist
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Last week, two readers of The Four Hundred told me they lost multiple disk drives in their OS/400 servers even after doing everything that IBM has been telling customers to do to prevent such crashes. IBM has never come clean on the nature of its OS/400 server disk problems, so it is hard to say if this is a new rash of failures or not. Further complicating matters, IBM is rolling disks made by Seagate into the OS/400 base now, too.
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Admin Alert Correction: Our PC5250 Mistake, Your Gain with Two Tech Tips
by Joe Hertvik
Last week, I wrote an Admin Alert column on Client Access PC5250 support for displaying both 80- and 132-column output in a terminal emulation session. While no one took umbrage with my description of how to enable this support, plenty of readers wrote in to tell me that I was flat-out wrong when I asserted this was a new Express V5R1 feature. It isn't. As my penance, I am providing a few bonus tips, complements of readers of The Four Hundred.
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Kronos Acquires HR/Payroll Product Line
by Alex Woodie
Kronos last week followed through on a commitment it made in 2001 to enter the market for payroll and human resources software by purchasing the source code for a Windows-based payroll and human resource application developed by Best Software. The Chelmsford, Massachusetts, company, which already controls more than 50 percent of the market for time and attendance software, says its customers have been clamoring for an integrated payroll and HR solution, and now Kronos plans to give it to them.
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Lakeview Working on MIMIX for Windows
by Alex Woodie
Lakeview Technology is adapting its MIMIX high availability software for OS/400 servers to run under Microsoft Windows and IBM's xSeries servers. Although the Oak Brook, Illinois, company is not yet ready to formally announce the availability of the software or discuss it in detail, the company's preliminary announcement makes it clear that MIMIX for Windows will be geared toward helping existing AS/400 and iSeries users provide more uptime for their Integrated xSeries Servers or external xSeries servers connected via the xSeries adapter cards.
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Will OS/400 Shops Take LPAR-Based Server Consolidation to Heart?
by Dan Burger
Why should you care about logical partitions and server consolidation? Well, if you are running an iSeries or AS/400 with multiple OS/400 servers, the answer may be you could save a bundle of money on hardware and become more efficient at managing your OS/400 servers. The case for logical partitioning and server consolidation was presented last week during an iSeries Nation
Webcast presentation by IBM product marketing manager Amit Dave and his guest Van Rownd, vice president of information services at Railcar Management.
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Reader Feedback and Insights
We value your feedback and your insights into the OS/400 market.
Feel free to drop us a letter to the editor and we will post
them in a reader feedback column associated with this newsletter.
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Corrections
Guild Companies strives to publish accurate information at all times. Minor errors of spelling, punctuation,
and the like will be corrected on our Web site without notice. When we correct significant errors of fact or
substance, we will note the correction on the page containing the corrected version of the original article, as
well as in the next issue of the newsletter.
If you think Guild Companies has published something in error, please e-mail us at
editors@itjungle.com.
The article "PentaSafe Allows 'What If?' Testing for OS/400 Security"
has been edited since its original publication to correct the pricing information for the VSM and VSA bundle for Linux on the iSeries and for the VSA for Linux on iSeries product as a standalone purchase. Guild Companies regrets the error.
[Correction made 3/18/02]
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Editor
Timothy Prickett Morgan
Managing Editor
Shannon Pastore
Contributing Editors:
Conributing Editors:
Dan Burger
Joe Hertvik
Kevin Vandever
Shannon O'Donnell
Victor Rozek
Alex Woodie
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