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Check out the latest OS/400 PTF Guides, provided by our partner DLB Associates at http://www.itjungle.com/ptf/ptfindex.html. Keep up to date with what IBM is doing to and with OS/400.
Last week, IBM ended beta testing for its iSeries ODBC Driver for Linux and the driver is now classified as a generally available fully supported program. IBM is still giving away the driver as a free download from its iSeries ODBC Driver for Linux Web site, and Big Blue is also providing the product's installation and usage guide as a link off that Web site or you can read it now by clicking here. In addition, you can participate in an iSeries ODBC Driver for Linux discussion forum that IBM is hosting. Finally, be aware that IBM says you should remove any beta versions of the driver before you install the production version; this is reportedly because GA installation files are copied to a different location than what was used for the beta.
Just like we said it would two weeks ago, IBM has released the first beta of its iSeries Access for Web. The beta runs under OS/400 V5R1, and it is supported on the iSeries WebSphere Application Server V4.0 Advanced and Advanced Single Server Edition software as well as on the Apache Jakarta Tomcat application server for iSeries (OS/400 Tomcat). Because of this new support, the beta will not run under WebSphere V3.5 on the OS/400 platform. New browser-based features include improved PDF viewing of OS/400 spool files, and more OS/400 command processing, file transfer, and e-mail capabilities. For more information on the beta including download instructions, go to IBM's iSeries Access for Web beta Web site at http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/clientaccess/web/beta.html.
Also last week, IBM delivered two new WebSphere Commerce products for the OS/400 platform: WebSphere Commerce Professional Edition for iSeries V5.4 and WebSphere Commerce Business Edition for iSeries V5.4. These packages build on WebSphere Commerce Suite V5.1 and they provide additional capabilities for order management, catalog editing, commerce acceleration and analysis, collaboration, auctions, and payments. Both products are available today. For developers, the new WebSphere Commerce offerings are also compatible with IBM's WebSphere Commerce Studio Professional or Business Developer V5.4 Edition tools for Windows NT or Windows 2000. The packages run under OS/400 V5R1 and WebSphere Application Server V4.0. For more details, see IBM's announcement letter at http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com/usalets&parms=H_202-042.
BCC Technologies has three promotions going to reduce the price of its 15K RPM disks for iSeries and AS/400 customers. The "try and buy" promotion offers first-time BCC customers a free 30-day trial to test up to 10 of BCC's 15K Extender Disk Drives. If customers trying them out decide to buy, BCC will give them a 25 percent discount off the price of the first 10 15K-disks, which range in list price from $1,500 for the 4GB EDD FAST model to $2,500 for the new 35 GB EDD disk. The second promotion gives all BCC customers a 25 percent discount on orders of 100 or more 15K disks. The third promotion lets customers acquiring 15K RPM drives under a leasing contract through IBM Global Financing defer their first lease payment on units for three months. All three promotions are good through April 30. For more information, call BCC at 1-800-598-9910.
For years, AS/400 types have complained that colleges don't teach RPG programming or AS/400 skills, preferring instead to teach Unix, C++, and Java. Now college instructors who are interested in teaching their students how to develop Web or wireless applications using OS/400 and its integrated DB2/400 database can now obtain a free copy of Business Computer Design Int'l's ProGen WebSmart integrated development environment. BCD recently announced that registered instructors can get an unlimited number of licenses to use the software--both the PC-based development tool and the iSeries-based runtime server--in class. BCD is also throwing in full documentation, training materials, and technical support. So far, there's already one taker: Ron Williams, an instructor at a Waco, Texas, community college who plans to teach WebSmart this fall.
Better On-line Solutions has announced its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2001 results. The Teradyon, Israel, company reported revenues of $59.2 million in 2001, a 31 percent decrease from 2000. The net operating loss for the year was $6.3 million. Revenues for the fourth quarter were $11 million, a 52 percent decrease from the prior year's fourth quarter. The company blames most of its poor financial performance on the untimely expansion last year of its Pacific InfoSystems subsidiary, a Portland, Oregon, value-added reseller, which brought in almost $29 million less revenue in 2001 than in 2000. B.O.S.'s CEO, Moti Weiss, plans to steer the B.O.S. conglomerate back to profitability by following a strict business plan, he said.
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