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If you are trying to sort out IBM's latest PTFs for OS/400 and its related systems programs, check out the latest OS/400 PTF Guide, which is put together by our friends at iSeries business partner DLB Associates. An archive of the OS/400 PTF Guides published to date is available also available.
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Two iSeries software vendors last week announced new partnerships with iWay Software, a provider of middleware for integrating disparate data and applications. The strategic alliance that iWay and Lakeview Technology have formed will focus on improving the process of extracting data from very large databases and legacy systems for the purpose of loading them into data warehouses, datamarts, and other data stores. As part of the alliance, Lakeview's OmniReplicator software, which moves data among popular database management systems, will be combined with iWay's ETL Manager, a product for extracting, transforming, and loading data into data stores. The partnership that iWay has formed with Metaserver, a provider of business process integration modeling and redeployment software, focuses on iWay's extensive store of application and database adapters. Metaserver will integrate iWay's adapters into its Metaserver BPI modeling and runtime environment, and become a reseller for iWay.
ICOM Informatics, a French company that sells Web-to-host software for OS/400, OS/390, Unix, and other systems, formed an alliance last week with Voxa, a Brisbane, California, company that sells an XML-based redevelopment system. As part of the agreement, Voxa will integrate ICOM Informatics' legacy connectivity software with its own offerings, the vDeveloper integrated development environment and vServer runtime component. The companies said the combined offering will enable the creation of "composite applications," which are new applications built on top of and connecting existing applications without changing or reconfiguring the existing applications in any way.
Midrange software provider WRQ, of Seattle, and AltoWeb, a Palo Alto, California, company that has developed a Java 2 Enterprise Edition-based Web services delivery system, formed a partnership last week, too. As a result of the partnership, WRQ will provide the expertise and the technology necessary for exposing the logic of legacy platforms (such as OS/400 and OS/390) to AltoWeb's Java development environment, for the purpose of creating composite applications, which are new applications made out of existing applications and data, only deployed in a new way, with support for new Web languages and protocols.
Is EMC trying to buy BMC Software? It is, according to an InfoWorld story published a week ago that cited an anonymous source familiar with EMC's plans. If EMC does buy BMC Software, the purchase would significantly boost the enterprise position of EMC, which currently focuses on providing disk arrays, and which wants very badly to become a force in the software industry. BMC, which provides cross-platform systems management software, has a market capitalization of $4.2 billion, while EMC has a market cap of about $17 billion. Both are publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. BMC is also the supplier of the Patrol series of performance tools that have replaced the BEST/1 performance tools with OS/400 V5R2.
IBM is on track to release the final Client Access for Windows 95/NT service pack this week. Service pack SF67055 is scheduled to be released May 31, and it's a fairly small swan song that only contains what IBM refers to as "corrections for some regression problems for PC5250 and the Data Transfer function." There are no plans to provide additional Client Access for Windows 95/NT service packs. (For more information, see "This Is The Way Client Access for Windows 95/NT Ends.") The SF67055 download information can be obtained from the Client Access Service Packs Web site once it is released.
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