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iWay Adds File Transfer to SOA Suite

February 26, 2008 Alex Woodie

There are lots of benefits to implementing a service oriented architecture (SOA), according to iWay Software, which is in the SOA middleware business. Unfortunately, streamlining the transfer of files in enterprise environments is not one of those benefits. In fact, SOAs tend to complicate the matter. That’s why last week iWay added a new file transfer option to its suite of SOA software.

As SOA adoption creeps forward, organizations begin learning what works and what doesn’t work in an SOA. Apparently, there is quite a bit of work to do in enterprise file transfer in SOA frameworks, according to

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Magic to Help ISVs Move to SaaS

February 26, 2008 Alex Woodie

Magic Software last week announced plans to deliver a new set of development tools aimed at helping independent software vendors (ISVs) deliver their applications using the software as a service (SaaS) approach. The Israeli company also delayed filing of its quarterly and year-end financial results by a week.

Magic says it has already completed a round of beta testing for its new offering, called the SaaS Enabled Application Platform, or SEAP, and plans to officially roll it out later this year, starting in Japan.

SEAP is based largely on eDeveloper, the 4GL-based integrated development environment (IDE) for i5/OS and Windows

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Informatica Launches Data Migration Suite

February 26, 2008 Alex Woodie

Informatica last week launched a new suite of software and services aimed at migrating data among enterprise systems. The offering, called the Data Migration Suite, includes specially packaged versions of Informatica’s popular data integration and data quality tools, along with professional services.

Moving large amounts of data among critical business systems can be a harrowing task. Whether it’s for a new ERP application implementation, a consolidation of enterprise systems, or as part of a merger or acquisition, a data migration project should be planned well in advance to minimize the chance of errors.

But that’s not how organizations typically approach

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HiT Takes IT Solutions to South America

February 26, 2008 Alex Woodie

Data integration tool vendor HiT Software last week revealed a series of new partners who will represent the Silicon Valley company in the burgeoning South American IT market. The company also hired a Latin American sales manager, and translated sections of it Web site into Spanish.

HiT Software develops a series of tools designed to make it easier for companies to move data among their major relational databases (including DB2/400), XML, and Windows and Java applications using an assortment of .NET, OLE DB, ODBC, and JDBC techniques.

Interest in HiT’s tools among South and Central American organizations has increased considerably

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Welcome to Legacy Status, Windows Server

February 25, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

This week, Microsoft will finally get Windows Server 2008, formerly known as “Longhorn Server” and the companion to the desktop Windows Vista operating system, out the door. If you don’t count normal service packs but do include sub-releases, this is the eighth major update to the Windows server platform, and as Windows has come to dominate the server space (unless you count Unix and Linux together, which I do), it has in many ways moved back in time and become a legacy system.

Yes, I know how weird that sounds. But it is nonetheless true.

A lot has changed with

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i5/OS V6R1 Compiler and Tool Pricing Versus V5R4

February 25, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

A few weeks ago, IBM provided a product preview concerning the rejiggering of application development tools for the System i platform embodied in WebSphere Development Server (WDS) as well as a statement of direction about the eventual sunsetting of its WebSphere Development Studio Client (WDSC) development tool, which has been replaced by the new Rational Developer for System i (RDi) tool as part of the i5/OS V6R1 announcements. What IBM did not provide was pricing on this software–at least not to customers. But partners know.

While WDS and WDSC will be supported by IBM for at least two more years,

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Gartner Gives Annual Report Cards to Server Makers

February 25, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The analysts at Gartner have finished their box and sales counting for the worldwide server market for 2007, and the good news is that companies continued to invest in server technology, boosting worldwide sales by 3.8 percent to $54.8 billion compared with 2006. That revenue growth was driven by even faster increases in shipments of feature-packed boxes, with shipments worldwide up 7.4 percent to 8.84 million units. The server world may be going virtual, but there is a lot of iron–tens of millions of production servers–that need to be replaced.

The server market has had its ups and downs in

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As I See It: Change in Plan

February 25, 2008 Victor Rozek

At some point, we all come face to face with the specter of limitation as time begins to pare down our options, awakening a dormant sense of urgency. It is, in part, a whimsical reminder that we’ll never become the major leaguer, or the astronaut, or the ballerina we once wanted to be. More bluntly, it is the humbling confirmation that we are not yet independently wealthy, are unlikely to win national acclaim, or have our book plugged by Oprah. It is the time when idealists discover that not only have they failed to save the world, they haven’t even

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IDC Tweaks Global IT Spending Estimates Downward for 2008

February 25, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The analysts at IT market researcher IDC have taken a look at the state of the global economy and have decided that their initial estimates for spending in the information technology area in 2008 were just a tad bit rosy. And therefore, IDC has decided to lower its forecast for IT spending this year, despite the explosive growth in emerging markets and mostly because of a spending slowdown in IT in particular and in the overall economy in the United States.

“While there is still debate over the severity and length of a U.S. economic slowdown, we do know that

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Reader Feedback on Net Neutrality Comes Around on the Ferris Wheel Again

February 25, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The issue of Net Neutrality can get the blood boiling, and it should considering that the stakes are very high for our public lives and private economics as citizens and for the telecom and Internet giants who are vying to shape how the Net is regulated–or not. Here are some thoughts from a reader on the subject, which reflect a common viewpoint on the issue. And the strong language that people sometimes use as they discuss the issue.

–TPM

It all depends on how you slice it. These types of “services” that might include phone, cable, satellite TV, electricity, water,

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