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ALDON COMPUTER GROUP
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Free Whitepaper on Application Modernization Through Multi-Platform Development.
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SSG Relaunches Fast400 Governor Buster for OS/400 Servers
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
For those of you out in OS/400 land who have been waiting for the Fast400 green-screen governor buster to
re-emerge, and have been wondering if Storage Solutions Group, the English company that took over the
marketing of Fast400 from TigerTools last December, would ever get the product back into production, the
waiting and the wondering are over. Fast400 has indeed been relaunched, and it is available once again for
download for trial use, and for relatively modest fees for production use.
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HP Eats Compaq, Preserves OpenVMS, and We Mull an OS/400 Union
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
The Delaware Chancery court judge hearing the suit brought by Walter Hewlett against the upper
management of Hewlett-Packard threw the case out of
court, allowing HP to complete its $19 billion acquisition of rival Compaq last week. HP has changed its symbol on the New York
Stock Exchange from HWP to HPQ, to reflect ; Compaq shares will no longer trade. Significantly for
OS/400 shops, HP has preserved its proprietary OpenVMS platform, and for good reasons that are similar
to IBM's continuing commitment to the iSeries.
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MAXIMUM AVAILABILITY
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New Complimentary Journaling Utility
Taking advantage of remote journaling is now the only logical approach to Data Replication.
As the experts in data replication using Journaling and Remote Journaling on the iSeries, Maximum Availability now offers a free down loadable utility, Journal Analyzer , so that you can better understand and manage your Journaling environment.
Get Journal Analyzer today and you will know you are ready for *noMAX - the data replication product for the iSeries.
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Sponsored By
ASNA
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ASNA Visual RPG (AVR) Won the Editors' Choice Apex Award for Application Development & the Readers' Choice Apex
Award for eCommerce! Magazine editors & readers alike voted AVR as the best solution for developing Web & Windows
applications. See why AVR continues to win all of the industry awards.
Download your FREE trial of ASNA Visual RPG (AVR) and get started with the
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Visit the ASNA Web site today: www.asna.com/downloads.asp
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IBM Reveals Interesting iSeries Statistics
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Kim Stevenson, vice president of iSeries marketing at IBM, recently held an iSeries Nation chat, and spent a lot of time talking
about the new iSeries Model 890 and V5R2 announcements, as you might expect. But she also divulged a
bunch of interesting statistics about the iSeries installed base. And she made a number of other interesting
comments as well.
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IBM Rejiggers iSeries Software Prices, Trade-In Offers, Rebates
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
IBM rejiggered the pricing on some iSeries-related
software last week and also tweaked or killed off a number of trade-in or rebate deals that it has cooking in
the iSeries market. The good news is that IBM has cut prices on the Host Access Client Package for
Multiplatforms, which is used to link thin and thick clients to OS/400, mainframe, and other proprietary
minicomputer platforms. IBM also announced a special promotion for companies that buy ServerProven
applications.
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Sponsored By
MKS
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Are you transitioning from developing traditional applications to e-business? MKS offers a proven solution for
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Whether using Websphere, Eclipse, Visual Age, Lotus Domino, AIX, Windows, Unix, or Linux for development, MKS can help!
Learn about MKS's workflow-enabled configuration management solutions for distributed and multi platform development.
Download your free white paper at: www.mks.com/ads/midrangeibmwp
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IBM Offers $1 Million Rebates for iSeries High-Availability Servers
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
One of the important deals that fell by the wayside in the flurry of the OS/400 V5R2 and iSeries Model 890
announcements in the past few weeks was the important and sizeable rebates that IBM is giving to iSeries customers when they install auxiliary iSeries
servers and use them only for high-availability clustering. Every deal comes with strings, and customers
who take advantage of the rebates have to buy IBM's Backup, Recovery and Media Services software and a
prepaid three-year Software Subscription license in order to take part in the deal.
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ProData Introduces ProTools Utility Suite
by Dan Burger
Everybody has his favorite tools. The right tool gets a job done quicker and with fewer hassles. Some
people get by with only a few tools and others have a special tool for every conceivable task. Over the
years, ProData Computer Services has come
up with an assortment of handy utilities for those who "bust their knuckles," to borrow a mechanics term,
working on the iSeries and AS/400.
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Microsoft to Pay $1.3 Billion for Navision, OS/400 Apps in Limbo
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
The board of directors at Navision, the Danish
application software vendor that has one of the most popular suites in Europe and one of the largest
installed bases in the world, has confirmed that it has indeed been entertaining a takeover offer from Microsoft. In fact, the board says that it approves of the
$1.3 billion offer and that it is asking shareholders to go enthusiastically along with it. Exactly what will
happen to the ongoing port of Navision's applications to the iSeries is uncertain.
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But Wait, There's More . . .
Transoft Acquires blackboxIT . . . IBM Is Tops in Database Market . . . DataMirror Makes Third Offer for
IDION . . . DataMirror Seeks Shelter from Hostile Takeovers . . . Infinium Creates Reseller Channel . . .
Original Software Partners with Software Change Management Vendors . . . Get the Latest OS/400 PTF
Guide . . . IBM Expected to Cut Jobs This Week . . . BCC Follows IBM, Cuts iSeries Disk Prices . . .
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Editor
Timothy Prickett Morgan
Managing Editor
Shannon Pastore
Contributing Editors:
Dan Burger
Joe Hertvik
Kevin Vandever
Shannon O'Donnell
Victor Rozek
Alex Woodie
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