• Vision to Support IBM’s HASM Technology in Clustering Software

  March 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Vision Solutions last week announced that it’s supporting the new High Availability Solutions Manager (HASM) that IBM will include with the forthcoming release of i5/OS V6R1. With HASM support in Cluster1, the largest System i shops will have a single solution for managing their entire high availability environments, from logical replication all the way through hardware-based clustering solutions such as HASM. When it becomes available with i5/OS V6R1 on March 21HASM will provide another way for System i shops to replicate data, objects, and resources as part of a high availability or disaster recovery program. HASM combines the so-called hardware-based

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• CodeGear Offers a Rational Alternative for System i Development

  March 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Borland subsidiary CodeGear yesterday announced that it is reselling the Delphi/400 family of products, which was originally developed by SystemObjects. With the Delphi/400 and Delphi/400 for PHP offerings, CodeGear customers gain a way to develop Web- and Windows-based front ends to existing RPG and COBOL applications from within Delphi, Borland’s 4GL IDE–and also gain another alternative to IBM and its WebSphere and Rational development tools. CodeGear was created in November 2006 when it was spun out of Borland’s developer tool division to continue to develop and support the Delphi, JBuilder, 3rdRail, Blackfish, Interbase, JGear, and Turbo products. While sales

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• TDCI Hooks Product Configurator into i5/OS ERP

  March 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Is it possible to have too much choice? It can often seem that way when trying to order products from manufacturers that offer a dizzying array of features, options, colors, and dimensions. To help streamline the decision making process, TDCI sells a piece of software called BuyDesign that makes a manufacturer or distributor “easy to do business with.” And now with the new iSeries Adapter, TDCI is making it easier to hook BuyDesign into i5/OS-based ERP systems. You may have heard of Columbus, Ohio-based TDCI. The company continues to develop and sell the MAC-PAC XE ERP suite, which is based

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• Fax Added to System i VoIP Solutions

  March 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Interested in getting FoIP, or fax over IP, along with your System i voice over IP (VoIP) solution? Then you may want to check out Sagem-Interstar, which next month plans to begin shipping a new version of its Linux-based FoIP server technology designed to work with the System i-based VoIP offerings from 3Com and Nortel. VoIP plays a central role in IBM‘s Unified Communications (UC) strategy, but it’s not the only technology involved. E-mail is another important element of UC, as are instant messaging (IM), video conferencing, and Web-based collaboration tools such as wikis, blogs, and forums.

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• Chrono-Logic Updates Change Management Offering for LANSA

  March 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Organizations that use Chrono-Logic‘s iAM change management product to automate the deployment of its i5/OS-based applications created with LANSA development tools can now use iAM to deploy their Windows-based development efforts to Windows servers and PCs, the software company announced last week. Chrono-Logic, which is based in Montreal, Canada, offers several tools designed to enhance the LANSA development experience. Chief among these is iAM for Development, a change management tool that automates many aspects of iSeries and Windows LANSA development, including: task tracking; version control; impact analysis; and roll-backs; and code promotion and distribution. The product integrates with several

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• ACOM Improves Web-Based Document Management Solution

  March 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  ACOM Solutions last week unveiled a new release of EZContentManager, its Windows-based document management offering that gives users a Web front end for accessing documents originating from the System i and other server platforms. With version 3.4, ACOM adds a number of handy features designed to make it easier for users to perform document scanning, searching, and retrieval tasks. ACOM launched EZContent Manager in December 2005 to fill what it saw as a void in the market for a low-cost and easy-to-use content management systems. Instead of powerful but complicated content management systems from IBM and others that run on

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• Wheelabrator to Cut Waste with Paperless Solution from Quadrant

  March 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Houston, Texas-based Wheelabrator Technologies knows something about waste. For 30 years, the Waste Management subsidiary has been converting household trash into billions of kilowatt-hours of clean, renewable energy. Now, the JD Edwards World customer is looking to Quadrant Software and its paperless process management (PPM) solutions to help it get rid of another source of waste–paperwork–and implement more efficient paperless business processes. By the end of the month, Wheelabrator expects to complete its implementation of several Quadrant products, including IntelliChief, Formtastic, and FastFax, that should help the company reduce its use of paper and be more productive with business documents

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• S4i Systems Goes SOA with Doc Management

  March 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  It will be easier to interface S4i Systems‘ i5/OS-based document management software, called S4i Express, with third-party applications now that the company has adopted service oriented architecture (SOA) standards. Meanwhile, the company also announced that it’s been accepted into IBM‘s SOA Specialty Business Partner initiative, providing assurance that S4i Express’ SOA interfaces adhere to industry standards. S4i Express helps reduce users’ reliance on pre-printed forms while transitioning them to paperless business processes. The software monitors System i print queues, processes the output using report-segmenting or -bundling rules, converts it into PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, CSV, or plain text

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• New i5 Offering from TurboChef to Speed Batch Runs

  March 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Looking for a little extra power to speed those long-running batch jobs? Sick and tired of waiting for the batch to be over? Then you might be a good candidate for the latest in TurboChef Technologies‘ i-series product line, the i5, which is currently under development at TurboChef headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. TurboChef is currently developing a new line of i-series “speed cook batch ovens” to go along with its other successful products, including the High h Batch, the C3, and the Tornado, which features speeds up to 12 times faster than conventional equipment. But these speeds will be

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• IBM Readies Big Power6 Boxes, New X64 Servers

  March 10, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  IBM may be mostly a services and software company, but most of the services and software it sells are still, despite all the changes in the IT industry in the past three decades, driven by its own server platforms and the operating systems that IBM creates for them. So in that regard, if you think of services as the extra goodies you used to get when you spent 10 or 100 times as much for a server than you do today and if you think of software as the stuff that used to come with the hardware more or less

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