TFH Volume: 29 Issue: 16 Archives

Building Out The .NET Stack Around Mono for IBM i

March 13, 2019 Alex Woodie

The first release of a Mono .NET port to IBM i was issued last year. Since then, the IBM i open source community has been busy building many of the other middleware components that will make it easier for developers to build IBM i applications using Microsoft tooling.

Mono was ported to AIX and IBM i (via the PASE AIX runtime) last year, which gave IBM i and AIX shops the capability to run the open source .NET runtime on Power Systems servers, thus opening the door to allowing Microsoft‘s highly regarded suite of development tools to be …
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Supreme Court Weighs In On Oracle Vs. Rimini Street

March 13, 2019 Alex Woodie

The United States Supreme Court last week ruled against Oracle in its ongoing copyright infringement case against Rimini Street, handing the provider of third-party support services for JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, and Siebel ERP and CRM software a legal victory in the nation’s highest court.

It’s not often that lawsuits involving enterprise software and services make their way up to the Supreme Court. In this case, the nine justices were asked to rule on a relatively narrow disagreement between the two parties over what legal costs can be recovered. Oracle already prevailed in its copyright infringement case against Rimini Street, which …
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Five Acquisitions You May Have Missed

March 13, 2019 Alex Woodie

The New Year has started off with some wheeling and dealing, as some software company owners look to bulk up while others look to hand off responsibility to somebody else. Those operating in the IBM i marketplace aren’t alone in making acquisitions. Here are five under-the-radar deals in the midrange that you may have missed.

Attunity‘s line of real-time data integration software will now be sold through Qlik, which acquired the publicly traded company in a $560-million in late February. It was a natural enough move for Qlik, the well-regarded BI vendor that was acquired by private equity …
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Four Hundred Monitor, March 13

March 13, 2019 Jenny Thomas

This week, our own ITJ editor extraordinaire Alex Woodie takes on the omnipresent dinosaur perception that, even with so much new and exciting tech happening, the IBM i just can’t shake. It all began with a story about the city of San Francisco and the tax property assessment tool it run on “a Cobol-based system called AS-400.” That quote might make you cringe, but Alex points out “the problem isn’t so much the platform, but the applications that run on it.” You can find the links to both articles below and have your own debate, as well as find links …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 10

March 13, 2019 Doug Bidwell

All you people looking for some PTF action, you have some stuff to keep you busy this week. So grab the coffee and let’s get going. First of all, there are new HIPERs for IBM i 7.2 and IBM i 7.3, as well as Database group PTFs for IBM i 7.3. And don’t forget to check the defectives below.

As for new links in the IBM i PTF Guide sheet this week, try these on for size:
- System: IBM Administration Runtime Expert (ARE) for i
- PTF: Temporary Storage PTFs – All Releases
And now, for your weekly tip: Before there …
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Building Out The .NET Stack Around Mono for IBM i

Supreme Court Weighs In On Oracle Vs. Rimini Street

Five Acquisitions You May Have Missed

Four Hundred Monitor, March 13

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 10

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