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• IBM has raised the prices it charges for its Backup Recovery and Media Services for V5R1 and Infoprint for iSeries software for OS/400 servers. The BRMS software, which is sold under the product number 5722-BR1, costs $400 on machines in the P05 tier, a price that remains unchanged. The cost of the program in the P10, P20, and P40 tiers has risen by 10 percent, to $880, $2,760, and $5,520 respectively. The price in the P50 tier was jacked up by 25 percent, to $12,000. Per server fees for network features increased by 50 percent, to $750. Prices for the iSeries edition of the Infoprint Server program (5722-IP1) increased significantly, too. Infoprint Server costs $595 for the P05 tier, up 19 percent; it costs $1,495 for the P10 tier, up 50 percent; it costs $2,495 on the P20 tier, up 25 percent; it costs $4,295 on the P30 tier, up 23 percent; it costs $5,995 on the P40 tier, up 20 percent; and it costs $7,995 on the P50 tier, up 23 percent.
  

• If you are trying to sort out the latest PTFs for OS/400 and its related systems programs that IBM has released, you need to check out the latest OS/400 PTF Guide, which is put together by our friends at iSeries business partner DLB Associates. An archive of OS/400 PTF Guides published to date is also available.
  
  
• Nexgen Software Technologies, an iSeries software and consulting company that specializes in the BPCS and PRMS ERP applications suites for OS/400 servers (both now owned by SSA Global Technologies after SSA GT recently acquired PRMS from Computer Associates International) and the WorldSoftware and OneWorld suites (sold by J.D. Edwards, has inked a partnership with Cosyn Software, a software vendor based in New Zealand that provides add-on programs for ERP applications. Nexgen, based in Naperville, Illinois, will immediately start selling Cosyn's Spool Manager/400 spool file management utility, its Powerpage/400 system monitoring program, and its Audit Trail/400 auditing tool.
  
  
• The Original Software Group and SoftLanding Systems have established a new partnership whereby SoftLanding will sell Original Software's OS/400 software testing tools in North America. Original Software, which is based in Great Britain and opened an office in the United States near Chicago about a year ago, is perhaps the most highly recognized provider of application testing tools for the OS/400 platform. SoftLanding, based in Peterborough, New Hampshire, is one of the leading software change management vendors to support OS/400. The agreement goes beyond sales and marketing collaboration to include enhanced technical integration between SoftLanding's TurnOver Change Management and Original Software's TestBench for iSeries, as part of Original Software's TestBench Proven program. The announcement was made a week after another OS/400 change management vendor, Aldon Computer Group of Oakland, California, announced that its change management system, Aldon/CMS, will also benefit from tighter integration to TestBench for iSeries. In April 2001, Original Software launched a reseller agreement with the third primary vendor of OS/400 change management software MKS, whereby Original Software would resell and support MKS's software. However, in recent months, that partnership has gone a bit cold because "the numbers weren't adding up for both companies," according to an MKS spokesman. Today, the two companies' continue their relationship by providing integration between their respective products through the TestBench Proven program.
  
  
• Create!form International's document management software for J.D. Edwards' ERP systems will now be available throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, as a result of a new partnership that Create!form last week formed with The Premier Group, a OneWorld Certified Channel Partner that supports clients in more than a dozen Latin American and Caribbean countries through its Coral Gables, Florida, headquarters and offices in Costa Rica and Puerto Rico. The Premier Group has been a J.D. Edwards partner since 1994 and also sells hardware from Dell and Hewlett-Packard.
  
  
• Gauss Interprise announced last week that Los Angeles area service provider The Thor Group has become a Certified Gauss Services Provider and will begin offering customized solutions to J.D. Edwards software users with Gauss' VIP Enterprise, its enterprise content management suite, which runs on OS/400 and other major operating systems. Thor, based in Manhattan Beach, California, is targeting its VIP Enterprise customization services at customers who use AS/400 and iSeries servers. Gauss, which recently moved its worldwide headquarters back to Irvine, California, said it has more than 1,000 AS/400 or iSeries customers, and that 100 of them run J.D. Edwards software.
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