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ACOM Cleans Up in HTE Accounts

February 12, 2008 Alex Woodie

When it comes to selling document management software to governmental entities running SunGard-HTE software, ACOM Solutions is doing a raucous business. Last week, ACOM announced it has added several more SunGard-HTE accounts to its customer list, bringing to total to more than 150.

As the fourth quarter of 2007 drew to a close, ACOM sold its suite of document management software to six municipal government agencies that use i5/OS-based software from SunGard-HTE to mange their cities.

The new customers included:

Battle Ground, Washington, a suburb of Portland, Oregon, with a population of 16,240;
Emporia, Kansas, the seat of Lyons

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Warehouse Design Experts Partner with VAI

February 12, 2008 Alex Woodie

Companies that rely on i5/OS ERP solutions from VAI will soon have a very different sort of expertise at their service. Yesterday, VAI announced it has partnered with National Storage & Conveyor Systems to help its customers design warehouses to be as efficient as possible.

For years, New York-based VAI has developed an i5/OS-based warehouse management system that automates and helps speed common warehouse tasks, such as picking, packing, shipping, and unloading. By interfacing with the System i server via wireless barcode scanners and keeping track of what’s coming and what’s going, the WMS system helped warehouse workers get work

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Malaysian Bank Picks Vision Solutions for HA

February 12, 2008 Alex Woodie

United Overseas Bank Malaysia Berhad (UOB Malaysia) has implemented ORION HA for i5/OS to provide high availability for its System i servers, ORION HA’s developer, Vision Solutions, announced last week.

As a subsidiary of Singapore’s United Overseas Bank, UOB Malaysia is a part of one of the largest financial institutions in Asia. UOB Malaysia has assets of more than 37 billion Malaysian Ringgits (RM), or about $11.5 billion at current exchange rates, and operates more than 500 offices in 18 countries.

Like many mid size banks, UOB Malaysia runs much of its business on the IBM System i server,

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Clothing Company Chooses Lawson

February 12, 2008 Alex Woodie

Canterbury of New Zealand, a manufacturer of rugby jerseys and other sports apparel, is installing a preconfigured version of Lawson Software‘s M3 software on a System i server to underpin its growth plans, the software company announced last week.

Canterbury of New Zealand’s roots go back to 1880s New Zealand, where two families spun clothing for men to wear in pursuit of the national sport–rugby. The company was formally founded with the joining of two families in 1904, expanded to North America during the rugby-shirt craze of the 1970s, and today supplies clothing for sport and fashion to top

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WDSC Is Out, Rational Developer for System i Is In

February 11, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

If it has not been made clear to you yet from our coverage of i5/OS V6R1, this is a big release. While prior releases have also been big in terms of bringing database clustering, integrated high availability plumbing, logical partitioning, an AIX runtime environment, support for Linux, or the WebSphere application server and development tools, just to name some big features from the past decade’s worth of OS/400 and i5/OS versions and releases, V6R1 is important in that it involves the rejiggering and repackaging of the application development toolset for the System i platform.

As part of the announcements last

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Q&A with MKS CEO Philip Deck: Automating the Automaters

February 11, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Q&A with MKS CEO Philip Deck: Automating the Automaters

As the chairman and chief executive officer of application lifecycle management software maker MKS, Philip Deck spends a lot of time thinking about how other people and his own company create and manage software. Deck joined the Canadian and publicly traded software firm in 1999 after running a company called Certicom, a maker of cryptographic hardware and software, but he is clearly at home in the ALM software space and clearly enjoys his job, as this interview shows.

MKS, of course, was founded in 1984 as Mortice Kern Systems, and

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The System i Loses One Big Account and a Mid-Sized One, Too

February 11, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Somewhere, deep in the heart of Georgia, there is a System i sales rep whose is none too happy. And just a little further north, up in America’s capital, there is another sales rep who is also probably not feeling too chipper. Two long-time AS/400 shops–the billing operations of cellular phone service provider AT&T Wireless and the United States Mint, the division of the U.S. Treasury department that prints and sells money–are both rumored to be ditching their iSeries and System i machines for alternative platforms.

First, the smaller i5/OS shop that IBM has let get away. That the

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As I See It: Why IT Will Save the Economy

February 11, 2008 Victor Rozek

Explanation #1: Fifteen years ago, two college kids were jogging along the beach and, as they were passing a large clump of flotsam wrapped in ropes of kelp, they noticed something glinting in the sunlight. They stopped, looked, and one of them reached into the slimy mass and pulled out what appeared to be an ancient lamp. As is the custom with ancient lamps, the young man began to rub it vigorously. No sense in taking a chance; they’d feel pretty stupid if they passed up their opportunity to awaken the Genie.

Sure enough, there was a sizeable puff of

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High Voltage DC Systems for Data Centers Cut Power Use

February 11, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

If you are running out of power and cooling in your data center and that is limiting your ability to add servers and storage for your company to support growing workloads, or if you are just simply tired of wasting energy, then Validus DC Systems wants to talk to you. The Brookfield, Connecticut, company has created a hybrid AC-DC power system for data centers that can cut energy consumption by as much as 40 percent, basically by eliminating AC power inside the data center and by running server and storage supplies at a higher DC voltage.

That sounds easy enough,

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IBM Cuts i5/OS-Based JS22 Blade Server Prices

February 11, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Well, that was quick. But apparently not quick enough for the IBM online store to be updated last week when everyone was taking a gander at the new i5/OS configuration of the Power6-based JS22 blade server. What I am referring to is a price cut that IBM made on the i5/OS configuration of the JS22 blade server that went into effect on January 29, the big announcement day, but was not reflected in the Web pricing that I cited in last week’s article about the JS22 and i5.OS V6R1.

Here’s the deal. When I looked online last week–and when

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