Alex Woodie
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Rimini To Pay Oracle For Copyright Infringement, Damages
October 26, 2015 Alex Woodie
… Read moreRimini Street this month was ordered to pay Oracle $52.8 million in penalties for infringing on its copyrights for JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Siebel, and Oracle database software. Despite that, the third-party provider of maintenance and support claimed a moral victory over Oracle, and praised the court for essentially declaring its business model legal.
After years of legal wrangling, the jury finally heard arguments from both companies in Oracle v. Rimini Street during a trial that started in late September and continued into early October. The jury was asked to determine whether Rimini had violated Oracle’s copyrights while servicing the ERP,
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Accur8 Takes Aim at Data Virtualization Opportunity
October 21, 2015 Alex Woodie
… Read moreAfter years of working for others inside and outside of the IBM i community, Glenn Marchesani is now branching off on his own. His new venture-debt funded startup, called Accur8 Software, is now selling a tool that, among other things, enables power users to quickly and easily build SQL-powered apps by providing a data virtualization layer atop existing systems and databases, including DB2 and IBM i.
Marchesani is only 44 years old, but he has more experience than developers who are much older. The son of DB2/400 subject matter expert Skip Marchesani, Glen grew up around the AS/400, attending
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IBM Offers Tech Preview for iASP-Based HyperSwap
October 21, 2015 Alex Woodie
… Read moreThe future of HyperSwap on IBM i became a little more clear this month with IBM‘s October 5 announcement. That’s when IBM shared details on a new Technology Preview for HyperSwap supporting independent auxiliary storage pools (iASPs), which will allow more fine-grained failover of IBM i environments that are protected in PowerHA Enterprise Edition environments.
HyperSwap is a data resiliency feature that IBM debuted in its PowerHA Express Edition last year with the launch of IBM i version 7.2. The technology, which was originally developed years ago for System z mainframes, relies on the peer-to-peer remote copy (PPRC) synchronous
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Guardium Stands Tall Over DB2 on i Data
October 21, 2015 Alex Woodie
… Read moreYou may have tough security policies and follow IBM i security recommendations to the letter. But if you’re in a regulated industry, that’s not good enough–you need to actually prove you’re doing things right, and that means auditing. IBM i shops that face these requirements may want to check out the latest release of IBM‘s Security Guardium software, which includes new capabilities for IBM i.
Buried in IBM’s October 5 announcement for IBM i 7.1 Technology Refresh 11 and IBM i 7.2 TR3 were several snippets about Guardium and IBM i’s relationship to it. The new TRs mesh with
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Power8 Upgrade Yields Processing Dividends for Growing SAP Shop
October 21, 2015 Alex Woodie
… Read moreOne of the great things about the IBM i platform is how it grows and adapts to the companies that use it. Businesses can start with a small Power Systems server, and as the scale of their operations grows over the course of years, they can expand their IBM i processing footprints in a relatively easy manner. This pattern has played out time and time again, and the latest to use it is the German distributor HANSA-FLEX.
Based in Bremen, Germany, HANSA-FLEX is one of Europe’s top distributors of hydraulic parts. The $450 million company maintains a catalog of 95,000
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Equity Speaks: Q&A With The H.I.G. On HelpSystems
October 19, 2015 Alex Woodie
… Read moreEquity Speaks: Q&A With The H.I.G. On HelpSystems
As expected, H.I.G. Capital‘s plan to acquire HelpSytsems cleared all regulatory hurdles, and the deal was finalized last week. In a Q&A with IT Jungle, the H.I.G. partners in charge of the deal elaborate on plans for HelpSystems, as well as their view of the IBM i market and the IBM Power Systems server.
Fraser Preston, a managing director at H.I.G., and Aaron Tolson, a principal, were the main drivers of the deal to buy HelpSystems from Summit Partners, which was announced in August. Preston and Tolson agreed to
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GCC: Bringing More Open Source Software to IBM i
October 14, 2015 Alex Woodie
… Read moreOne of the more interesting parts of last week’s IBM i announcements (if easily overlooked) was the introduction of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) to the platform. As IBM‘s product manager for the IBM i explained last week, the addition of GCC essentially opens the door to bringing a wide range of open source packaged applications to the IBM i environment, and provides a key building block for IBM moving forward.
During his October 5 webcast on the COMMON Europe website (which you can view below), IBM i product manager Tim Rowe discussed the importance of open source software
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What JSON on IBM i Can Do For You
October 14, 2015 Alex Woodie
… Read moreOne of the most compelling new features that IBM added to the DB2 for i database in recent memory is support for JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), which has become the de facto standard interchange format for Web data. John Eberhard, a software engineer in IBM’s Rochester lab, recently led IT Jungle through some of the major capabilities that the new JSON data store can provide to all you IBM i shops out there.
IBM shipped a technology preview of the new JSON store earlier this year with updates to IBM i 7.1 and 7.2. Unfortunately, the JSON store did not
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Taming SQL Queries with a CozTool
October 14, 2015 Alex Woodie
… Read moreBob Cozzi has done a lot with the IBM midrange server platform–probably more than most, including founding the platforms’ first publication and presiding over its largest user group at one point. But Cozzi may have top it all with his latest creation: A handy little database utility called SQL Query File that he developed and sells through his software company, CozTools.
SQL Query File is a green-screen tool designed to let IBM i professionals quickly and easily query their DB2 for i database using standard SQL, right from the command line. You can cut the SQL you previously used
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LANSA Delivers LongRange Support for Windows 10 . . . Got Mobile Server Monitoring? iEye, Captain . . . Shield Goes ASP with JQG4i
October 14, 2015 Alex Woodie
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LANSA Delivers LongRange Support for Windows 10
IBM i shops that have Windows 10 devices in their mobile sites may want to check out LongRange, the LANSA development tool for IBM i customers. Last week LANSA announced that LongRange is the first IBM i-centric mobile development tool to support the creation of Windows apps that run on tablets and regular PCs.
Steve Gapp, president of LANSA Americas, says the new Windows support marks a turning point for LongRange, which the Downers Grove, Illinois, company unveiled back in 2012 to streamline development of native mobile applications (as opposed to Web apps)