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  • Mad Dog 21/21: Recovering Lost Prophets

    February 18, 2008 Hesh Wiener

    If you ask computer professionals who they thought were the leaders in data storage, chances are you’ll hear names like IBM, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Network Appliances, and Hitachi. If you asked these storage companies, you might get a different list that included some outfits that were largely unknown in the end user world. But end users probably don’t have to worry that they will miss out on some important new vendors. The Storage Establishment is buying up many of the emerging suppliers. This high-profile interest in the new crop of vendors makes all the contenders a

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  • The PHP Community Starts the PHP 4 Sunset, Gears Up for PHP 6

    February 18, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    The community behind the PHP scripting language that controls much of the Web application infrastructure out there on the Internet and on corporate networks has been evolving for a number of years. And now PHP 4, the language that put Zend Technologies on the map and was replaced two years ago by PHP 5, is being sunsetted by the PHP community. PHP 5.2 is the products customers need to be using as they ready for PHP 5.3 this year and PHP 6 next year.

    PHP 5 was a pretty bold upgrade, with object oriented programming and Web services built in,

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  • Net Neutrality Comes Around on the Ferris Wheel Again

    February 18, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    If at first, second, third, or fourth you don’t succeed, try, try again. Representative Ed Markey, the Democratic Congressman who hails from the 7th District of Massachusetts tech corridor around Boston, has introduced yet another bill that seeks to give some clarity about how traffic will be shaped–or not shaped–by the telecommunications companies and services providers that are the backbone of the Internet.

    In a bill called the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008 (HR5353), Markey and co-sponsor Republican Congressman Chip Pickering of the Third District of Mississippi, propose adding a new section to the Communications Act of 1934, which

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  • Consumer Technologies Help Smaller Business, Yankee Finds

    February 18, 2008 Alex Woodie

    Ever since IBM introduced the first personal computers almost 30 years ago, the consumer has been driving the development of computing technologies. This trend has been especially evident among the smaller businesses that adopted PCs and PC servers to automate their businesses, but it’s also had an impact on corporations that buy big honking servers. But a new study by the Yankee Group aims to shed some light on the new class of consumer technologies, and how they help drive employee productivity at small and mid size businesses.

    According to the Yankee Group, SMB technologies like blogs, wikis, smart phones,

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  • IBS Has Strong Software License and System i Sales in Q4

    February 18, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Swedish ERP application software maker International Business Systems is one of the largest remaining independent software companies that has not been snapped up by a larger player. The company closed out the final quarter of 2007 with strong software license sales and System i hardware sales, but services sales were down a bit, which impacted top line sales and profits in the quarter. And, perhaps most significantly, restructuring moves taken in 2006 and 2007 have yet to yield their full intended effects on the bottom line.

    Sweden is still using its own currency, the krona, which is abbreviated SEK, so

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  • Lawson Partnership Expands Food Industry Apps to Livestock Management

    February 18, 2008 Dan Burger

    Specialized application software and rock-solid reliability was what made the IBM AS/400 a legendary server for so many mid-sized companies around the world. Companies like Lawson Software played a big role in the successes through the years, with ERP applications that were well-suited for specific niches. Food and beverage is one. That industry has seen major operational changes such as mandated regulations in the food safety area and increasingly complex supply chain relationships involving large retail chain stores. It is also affected by fluctuating demand on a local, regional, and global scale.

    For more than 25 years, Lawson’s products have

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  • Jack Henry Unfazed by Financial Market Woes in Fiscal Q2

    February 18, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Maybe sometimes it is not so bad to be a midrange company and to serve customers in credit unions and savings and loan banks. Financial application software and System i hardware vendor Jack Henry & Associates has not seen much of an effect in its fiscal second quarter financial results from the global financial services meltdown associated with bad mortgages written in the United States.

    Jack Henry recently reported its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2008, ended December 31, booking $192.2 million in sales, up 15 percent, with gross profits of $84.8 million, up 16 percent. Costs

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  • IBM Apache Servers Needed by PHP

    February 13, 2008 Brian Kelly

    This is the second in a series of four articles by Brian Kelley on PHP.

    Of the “big three” elements needed to support the PHP language–namely Apache, PHP, and MYSQL, the System i has used Apache since V5R1. Before this, the AS/400 used the much more bulky HTTP server from CERN that was developed by Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee. This open source server from the Apache Foundation is now part of the standard fare of i5/ OS entitlements. IBM even gave it a product number–5722-DG1–so it can be differentiated during the PTF process. You don’t have to order it.

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  • Microsoft .NET 2.0 for System i Developers: Building Windows Forms Using the DataGridview Control

    February 13, 2008 Michael Sansoterra

    This is the third in a series of articles by Michael Sansoterra on Microsoft .NET 2.0.

    Note: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.

    Part 1 and Part 2 of this series provided a general introduction to using .NET with the IBM System i. Attention was given to how much could be done in .NET without any coding at all. Part 1 started with a trivial example of how to build an interactive Web page capable of editing data in a DB2 table using ASP.NET. Part 2 built on that foundation by AJAX-enabling the majority of

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  • Admin Alert: Printing and Emailing a System i Rack Config

    February 13, 2008 Joe Hertvik

    When requesting new hardware quotes for a System i, iSeries, or AS/400 server, your vendor will most likely ask you for a server rack configuration that was generated on the machine that you are upgrading. To alleviate confusion about this process, this column covers everything concerning rack configurations, including what a rack configuration is, why it’s needed, and how to generate and send a configuration to your vendor.

    What’s a Rack Config?

    A rack configuration (rack config) is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a listing of all the physical components in the rack (or racks) that host your System

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