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Q4bis Raises $6 Million in Venture Capital Funding

July 30, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Business intelligence software maker Q4bis, which recently moved its headquarters from New Zealand to Irvine, California, to take on the North American market, announced last week that it has received $6 million in Series A venture capital funding from a group of investors led by TVC Capital.

Q4bis has over 200 customers worldwide using its Q4bis BI Suite today, including a number of companies that have back-end systems based on the i5/OS and OS/400 platform. However, the company’s software runs on Microsoft‘s Windows operating system and uses its SQL Server 2005 database as its data store. Many

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Jack Henry Acquires Gladiator Technology

July 30, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

There are a number of bright spots in the i5/OS and OS/400 ecosystem, and Jack Henry & Associates, the provider of financial services software and hardware, is one of them. The company is growing, profitable, publicly traded, and making acquisitions. Specifically, Jack Henry has acquired Gladiator Technology Services, a provider of security services specifically tailored to banks and other financial institutions.

Jack Henry is located in Monett, Missouri, and was founded in 1976, when most companies did not yet have computers but financial institutions were buying up mainframes like crazy to automate operations that were people-intensive up until that

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HP Sells Heat Modeling Service to Cool Data Centers

July 30, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The real problem with data centers is that they are on CRAC. No, that is not a twist on the Gaelic word for romping good fun, craic, but rather the short-hand for computer room air conditioning unit. This is the device that cools the air, removes water from it, and pumps cold air into parts of a modern data center, thereby keeping servers, storage, and networking equipment from melting. CRAC units also take away heat, which gets sucked into HVAC systems and vented to the outside world. If Hewlett-Packard is right, companies are not necessarily using CRAC correctly, and

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Study Counts the Cost of Data Breaches

July 30, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Compliance regulations are a big pain in the neck, but putting policies and practices in place that control who has access to what information and under what conditions is not just a requirement of many laws, it is also a good idea in an increasingly networked and computerized world. But often, companies look at compliance measures as a cost, much as they did when they considered mainframes and minicomputers decades ago. But the IT Policy Compliance Group wants companies to think of compliance efforts as a means of preserving corporate reputations and revenues.

In a new report entitled Why Compliance

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Lawson Back in the Black as Fiscal 2007 Closes

July 30, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

ERP software maker Lawson Software celebrated the one-year anniversary of its acquisition of sometime rival Intentia International by getting back into the black during its fourth quarter of fiscal 2007, which ended on May 31. For the quarter, Lawson booked sales of $212.9 million, up 69 percent mostly because of the addition of Intentia. More importantly, as far as Lawson shareholders are concerned, Lawson had a net income of $8.1 million in the quarter, a lot better than the $4.8 million loss it had a year ago.

During the quarter, software license fees rose by 111 percent to $40.6 million,

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IBM Ready to Announce Power6-Based System i Box

July 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

During IBM‘s conference call with Wall Street analysts last week, the company’s chief financial officer, Mark Loughridge, confirmed the rumors that have been going around that IBM would be soon announcing a Power6-based server with the System i moniker on it.

Specifically, Loughridge said it would be announced later in the third quarter, but he might just as well have said sooner in the third quarter because the announcement is, in fact, tomorrow.

IBM has only announced one Power6-based server so far, a System p 570 server that has been tweaked to support the Power6 chip instead of the

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IBM Ready to Announce Power6-Based System i Box

July 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Specifically, Loughridge said it would be announced later in the third quarter, but he might just as well have said sooner in the third quarter because the announcement is, in fact, tomorrow.

IBM has only announced one Power6-based server so far, a System p 570 server that has been tweaked to support the Power6 chip instead of the

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IBM Ready to Announce Power6-Based System i Box

July 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Specifically, Loughridge said it would be announced later in the third quarter, but he might just as well have said sooner in the third quarter because the announcement is, in fact, tomorrow.

IBM has only announced one Power6-based server so far, a System p 570 server that has been tweaked to support the Power6 chip instead of the

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Avoid Large Local Variables in Modules

July 25, 2007 Ted Holt

In two previous articles, I dealt with some program design practices that can cause performance problems. Today, I deal with another area where large variables can have a derogatory impact on performance, and I show you a couple of ways to get around the problem. I use RPG for my examples, but the principle applies to any language.

Let’s say we need three string-handling subprocedures–I’ll call them DoThis, DoThat, and DoTheOther–that will be used in many programs. Since they’re used so widely, let’s put them into a service program. Let’s say further that each of these subprocedures accepts two 64K

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Memory Management: It’s Your Fault, Now Fix It

July 25, 2007 Doug Mewmaw

This year, I will be on the AS/400 platform for 19 years. Wow–where did that time go? All those years working with peers, customers and the like, I’m convinced that the performance component that is the most misunderstood, is memory. In a previous article, I explained about the importance of the machine pool and we looked at the Performance Adjuster feature of i5/OS as well. The feedback I received from that article proved to me that we need more articles on managing memory.

I would like to share some neat tricks of the trade and best practice techniques that

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