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Sponsored By BCD INT'L BCD’s Web and iSeries 400 Application Development Tools won 10 industry Awards and have 1,000’s of developers. Extend apps to the Web or create new ones—Fast. Try Award Winning WebSmart—Superior Technology that lets you create Web solutions fast, easy and affordably. FREE DOWNLOAD. Run on iSeries 400 HTTP/Apache Server and / or Windows, Linux, Unix, AIX...Multi-platform / multi-server, one effort! Click & visit—www.BCDsoftware.com	Sponsored By SOFTLANDING SYSTEMS Download FREE WebSphere Toolkit! Automate WebSphere tasks on the iSeries. Install EAR files, copy server configs, stop/start a WAS instance, pre-compile JSPs. Also learn how you can plug SCM into any popular IDE, including Eclipse/WebSphere IDEs, manage Web and iSeries objects together, deploy them to any server at the same time, and reduce downtime. Get your free WebSphere tools and more info online, or call SoftLanding at 603-924-8818 x1.
IBM to Sell Entry iSeries Servers at Half Price by Timothy Prickett Morgan The word on the street is that IBM is getting ready to chop prices on some of its entry iSeries models in an effort to get customers with aging AS/400 iron to move on up to iSeries hardware. According to sources familiar with Big Blue's plans, the MidMarket Server Division has put together a marketing plan called "Operation Green Streak," which will offer two entry iSeries models to new and existing OS/400 customers with a discount in the range of 50 percent. READ MORE >	Fast400 Debuts Performance Monitor for OS/400 Servers by Timothy Prickett Morgan Storage Solutions Group, the secretive European company that has relaunched the Fast400 green-screen governor buster for OS/400 servers, announced a new performance monitoring tool for OS/400 servers on July 5. (Europeans, as you might expect, particularly those in the United Kingdom, don't celebrate the birthday of the United States, on July 4.) Whether or not you use the Fast400 governor buster, you might find its companion performance tool, FastAct, useful, since it provides some of the functionality of IBM's Performance Tools for OS/400 at a fraction of the price. READ MORE >
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Krueger Thinks Through the Application Renewal Dilemma by Dan Burger Is your company dead meat unless it undertakes an application renewal project to Web-enable your legacy code? You've heard the promises about remaining competitive and getting products to market quicker. What's the truth? Application renewal prevents the need for rewriting applications or tossing away major investments. The process covers everything from "screen scraping" to integrating new technologies and disparate systems. But just knowing about these options doesn't tell you which one is right for your company, and plenty of companies are stymied by the choices they need to make to modernize their applications. READ MORE >	CAP Ventures, Create!form Show How e-Forms Deliver ROI by Timothy Prickett Morgan Though companies have predominantly used high-speed impact and laser printers for decades, myriad electronic alternatives to paper documents have been available for years. This is not news. What is news, however, is a cost analysis and return-on-investment study put together this week by CAP Ventures, a document and form market researcher and consultancy, and Create!form International, an e-forms and document management software vendor. READ MORE >
Sponsored By WORKSRIGHT SOFTWARE On June 30, 2002 $$$$   Postal Rates went UP!   $$$$ On July 1, 2002, you wanted $$$$   your postage bill to go down.   $$$$ We have the solution! CASS certify your mailing names and addresses and presort your outgoing mail with our CASS certification and presort software and save. WorksRight Software is the number-one source for iSeries and AS/400 CASS, presort, ZIP Code, and area code software and data. Visit www.worksright.com , call (601) 856-8337, or e-mail software@worksright.com .	Sponsored By AFFIRMATIVE COMPUTER IBM recently abandoned its thin client NetVista™, leaving a large group of users wondering where to go for thin clients. Affirmative Computer Products is dedicated solely to thin clients, replete with 122-keyboards and Windows CE and Linux versions specially designed for IBM-hosted networks, midrange and mainframe environments. Is Affirmative the premier provider of thin clients? The answer is yes! To learn more, call 888-353-5250 or visit www.affirmative.net.
Admin Alert: Changing OS/400 IP Addresses, Part 2 by Joe Hertvik After reading last week's Admin Alert on changing OS/400 IP addresses, an IBM staff software engineer on the TCP/IP and Internet Support Team wrote in to correct me on one particular paragraph in that piece. As you might expect, this engineer made a few good points about keeping TCP/IP active while making changes, which you should be aware of when you make changes to TCP/IP addresses on your AS/400 and iSeries servers. READ MORE >	iTera Boosted by New Partnership with MAPICS by Alex Woodie iTera, a newcomer in the OS/400 high-availability software market, received a big vote of confidence for its company and technology last week, when it announced that it formed a partnership with MAPICS, one of the biggest ERP providers for manufacturers on the OS/400 platform. As part of the agreement, MAPICS customers will get a discount upward of 25 percent on iTera's software, and the two companies' software will be further integrated. READ MORE >
Sponsored By CLIENT SERVER DEVELOPMENT LEARN SQL BY EXAMPLE! Buy your copy of iSeries and AS/400 SQL at Work direct from author Howard F. Arner, Jr. This is THE  book to teach you SQL on the iSeries and AS/400 platform. Howard takes you through SQL by example. The book comes with a CD that has all of the sample data and queries used in the book and a FREE copy of SQLThing that you can use to work through the examples in the book. Learn by doing! Order your copy at SQLThing.com	Sponsored By TRAMENCO The Training and Mentoring Company (Tramenco) is dedicated to just one thing: Advancing your career by giving you the skills you need to solve real-world business problems. Choose from a menu of training options to fit your needs: onsite seminars, public seminars, mentoring, consulting, books, CBTs, and Web-based training. For more information about Tramenco's career enhancing opportunities, call (800)421-8031 or go to www.tramenco.com.
But Wait, There's More . . . Get the Latest OS/400 PTF Guide . . . Columbian Drug Cartel's Use of AS/400 Detailed in Magazine Article . . . SkyView Partners Finds New Friend in LANSA . . . Aldon to Include Help Desk Functionality with Change Management . . . Elite Document Solutions Partners with Vanguard Systems . . . Jacada to Target Financial Services Firms with Align 360 . . . READ MORE >	Shaking IT Up: Peter or the Red Queen? Pick Your Principle by Kevin Vandever Ever heard of the Peter Principle? It basically states that people within an organization tend to get promoted to their level of incompetence. The theory was first brought to our collective attention by Laurence J. Peter in his book The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong, published in 1969. Peter's theory is based on his observation that people eventually end up in the wrong job for the right reason, and create havoc in the workplace. READ MORE >
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