• UC4 Sales Rocket Skyward in the United States

  May 1, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Cross-platform job scheduling software supplier UC4 Software said last week that its sales in the United States exploded by 80 percent in the first quarter, with license sales up by 87 percent. UC4 is a privately held company, so it doesn’t report its financials officially, but said that worldwide sales were $8.6 million in the first quarter and that it now had in excess of 750 customers. Last year, UC4, which is headquartered in Germany, said that it was going to start moving into the U.S. market, and appointed Mark Loehr as the chief operating officer of the U.S. unit.

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• NetManage’s First Quarter Disappoints

  May 1, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  With Attachmate and WRQ united as a single private company, the pressure has been pretty intense for competitor NetManage. The host connectivity and Web integration markets have been tough for the past five years or so, and NetManage just finished a pretty rough first quarter. NetManage said that for the first quarter ended March 31, license fee sales were $2.7 million, down 49 percent, while services sales were $5.8 million, down 15 percent. Total sales were $8.5 million, down 30 percent. While NetManage had a loss from operations of $1.05 million in the quarter, it booked $308,000 in interest

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• Migration RPG: Another Option for RPG II Shops

  May 1, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  I bet I can make you laugh. As you are aware from reading this newsletter, IBM has warned customers that it is planning on removing support for the System/36 RPG II and System/38 RPG III compilers in the next release of i5/OS, which presumably will be called i5/OS V5R5. The plan is to charge customers for a special, unwarranted version of the RPG II and RPG III compilers in cases where they need to make changes to their RPG II and RPG III applications. Now, if you happen to be a heavy user of RPG II, I suspect a few

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• Migration RPG: Another Option for RPG II Shops

  May 1, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  I bet I can make you laugh. As you are aware from reading this newsletter, IBM has warned customers that it is planning on removing support for the System/36 RPG II and System/38 RPG III compilers in the next release of i5/OS, which presumably will be called i5/OS V5R5. The plan is to charge customers for a special, unwarranted version of the RPG II and RPG III compilers in cases where they need to make changes to their RPG II and RPG III applications. Now, if you happen to be a heavy user of RPG II, I suspect a few

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• AttachmateWRQ Pays $495 Million for NetIQ

  May 1, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The consolidation continues apace in the software industry, and last week privately held AttachmateWRQ announced to its customers that it has acquired public company and security software provider NetIQ for a tidy sum of $495 million. This marks the third big acquisition that a group of venture capitalists have teamed up on together, beginning with WRQ in December 2004 and Attachmate in April 2005. It also marks the end of the public and independent life of NetIQ, which was founded in September 1995 in San Jose, California, and which went public just as the dot-com boom was roaring at full

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• AttachmateWRQ Pays $495 Million for NetIQ

  May 1, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The consolidation continues apace in the software industry, and last week privately held AttachmateWRQ announced to its customers that it has acquired public company and security software provider NetIQ for a tidy sum of $495 million. This marks the third big acquisition that a group of venture capitalists have teamed up on together, beginning with WRQ in December 2004 and Attachmate in April 2005. It also marks the end of the public and independent life of NetIQ, which was founded in September 1995 in San Jose, California, and which went public just as the dot-com boom was roaring at full

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• IBM and Partners Target Casinos with the System i

  May 1, 2006 Mary Lou Roberts

  There was a time when the casino industry was the exclusive turf of the OS/400 platform, thanks to a number of strong and established application providers who provided the hotel and gaming industry with the core solutions they needed to turn the key with software on a secure and reliable platform. To be sure, the industry is still dominated by OS/400 applications, although Microsoft has been blasting some holes in the fortifications of one of the iSeries’ biggest strongholds. IBM and its partners are fighting back. Chip McClelland, IBM’s senior marketing manager for System i, claims that the iSeries is

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• IBM and Partners Target Casinos with the System i

  May 1, 2006 Mary Lou Roberts

  There was a time when the casino industry was the exclusive turf of the OS/400 platform, thanks to a number of strong and established application providers who provided the hotel and gaming industry with the core solutions they needed to turn the key with software on a secure and reliable platform. To be sure, the industry is still dominated by OS/400 applications, although Microsoft has been blasting some holes in the fortifications of one of the iSeries’ biggest strongholds. IBM and its partners are fighting back. Chip McClelland, IBM’s senior marketing manager for System i, claims that the iSeries is

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• The Hardware Foundry

  May 1, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Sometimes in life, you have to put up or shut up. You have to put your money where your mouth is. You have to lead, even if you don’t have the time. You have to try something that you think is right–or, might be right, but you’re not sure–even if a lot of other people say you are crazy, or if they listen quietly and are not enthusiastic about the idea because they don’t see what you do. This happens a few times in a good life, and that is what I face as I launch something I have called

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• The Hardware Foundry

  May 1, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Sometimes in life, you have to put up or shut up. You have to put your money where your mouth is. You have to lead, even if you don’t have the time. You have to try something that you think is right–or, might be right, but you’re not sure–even if a lot of other people say you are crazy, or if they listen quietly and are not enthusiastic about the idea because they don’t see what you do. This happens a few times in a good life, and that is what I face as I launch something I have called

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