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But Wait, There's More . . .
You can get the latest and greatest OS/400 PTF, Guide complements of our partner, DLB Associates, by going to http://www.itjungle.com/ptf/ DLB-PTF_040602_V4N12.htm. You can get an archive of the OS/400 PTF Guides by going to http://www.itjungle.com/ptf/ptfindex.html. The latest guide details the PTFs IBM has released for WebSphere on OS/400 V5R1 and V4R5, as well as the usual HIPERs.
IBM last week released WebSphere Everyplace Access, a
key new piece in IBM's WebSphere puzzle designed to extend WebSphere applications and data to users
equipped with wireless devices. WEA is designed to work with other members of the WebSphere family--
including WebSphere Studio Workbench, WebSphere Everyplace Server Enable, WebSphere Voice
Toolkit, and WebSphere Transcoding Publisher--to create new client-side interfaces for wireless devices.
The new software supports industry standards such as SynchML, WAP, and LDAP to enable client-side
WebSphere interfaces on devices such as WAP-enabled mobile phones, PalmPilots, and Research in
Motion BlackBerry devices to support functions such as database queuing, synchronization, and device
and security management in always-on or intermittently connected modes.
Call it a case of bad karma. As part of Microsoft's
crusade to build support for its Windows operating system in the enterprise, the software giant launched an
anti-Unix Web site with server partner Unisys last week, as part of a campaign to portray Unix as
a complex operating system that unnecessarily ties users to expensive hardware. Such a denigrating tactic
would hardly garner much ink on a normal news day, except for the revelation of the embarrassing fact that
the anti-Unix Web site itself was actually running on Unix software--specifically the Apache Web server and the FreeBSD operating system, according to a
Netcraft query. The plot grew thicker the next day, when after much negative publicity the anti-Unix Web
site was moved to a Windows 2000 server running Internet Information Server, Microsoft's Web server,
and promptly quit working.
The whole episode was painfully reminiscent of a similar episode that occurred two years ago, when a
highly placed source within IBM leaked to the press a lurid story about Microsoft and its use of the AS/400
server. According to the source--who unfortunately could provide little supporting evidence of his
theory--Microsoft was unable to migrate to Windows NT from some 23 AS/400s that ran an ERP system for the
company's manufacturing division, and had to revert back to the AS/400, which, according to the source,
was administered remotely via an application service provider.
iSeries application development specialists mrc
last week announced support for the Linux operating system. The Lombard, Illinois, company now
allows applications developed using the mrc-Productivity Series to be deployed on Linux servers in
addition to the OS/400 and Windows servers that mrc already supports. The company has loaded a live
demo onto its Web site that shows the same two-tier Java servlets application running on three different
platform combinations: an iSeries server equipped with WebSphere accessing a DB2/400 database; a
Windows PC running the open-source Jakarta Tomcat
3.2 application server accessing a PC database; and a Linux-based PC running Jakarta Tomcat 4.0
accessing a DB2/400 database. "This added capability is a perfect solution for the small or midsize business
that doesn't have the budget for new hardware but wants the ability to serve its live data to the Web," stated
Sal Stangarone, mrc's vice president of business development. To view mrc's new Linux demo, visit the mrc demonstrations Web
site.
Quadrant Software, a provider of electronic
document distribution applications for OS/400, recently announced it has formed a partnership with Essex Technology Group, a Rochelle Park, North
Carolina, reseller of iSeries, pSeries, and xSeries hardware. Essex Technology is also a software and
services provider. As part of the agreement, Essex Technology will begin selling and supporting Quadrant's
OS/400 software, including Formtastic, the FastFax family of products, and eDocMail/E-Mail Gateway.
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