• CollabNet Snags Former SoftLanding Development Director

  May 22, 2007 Alex Woodie

  CollabNet, the open-source software company behind the Subversion change management solution, has snapped up two former SoftLanding Systems programmers, including Mark Phippard, former director of development, and Paul Burba, who worked on the port of Subversion to OS/400. Numerous employees of SoftLanding Systems have left the company or been fired following the acquisition by Unicom Systems in November. Some of these people have hired on at other change management vendors, notably Arcad Software, the French software company that is making a big push to capture a share of North American market for i5/OS change management tools, and which

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• Raz-Lee Updates iSecurity Suite

  May 22, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Raz-Lee Security is shipping a new release of iSecurity, its suite of security tools for System i servers. Improvements that users will see with the new release include a new graphical interface, new reporting and report distribution capabilities, and a new user authentication system. Raz-Lee’s iSecurity suite is composed of more than a dozen products that can be purchased individually or as an integrated package. The products include Firewall, Antivirus, Screen, Password Manager, Audit, Action, Capture, View, Visualizer, FileScope, Application Journal, User Profile Manager, and the Assessment tool. In April, Raz-Lee announced what it billed as a major a new

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• SoftTree Adds MySQL Support to Data Audit Tool

  May 22, 2007 Alex Woodie

  SoftTree Technologies has added support for the MySQL database with DB Audit Expert, its database audit tool that it now can claim supports every other major database, including DB2/400. DB Audit Expert is an affordable tool that administrators and auditors can use to track and analyze all database activity, including any access, use, adds, changes, or deletion. The product is particularly useful for proving compliance to the laundry list of regulations affecting IT: SOX, GLBA, HIPAA, BASEL II, et al. Up to this point, the product has worked with all major database management systems–DB2/400, DB2 UDB, SQL Server, Oracle,

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• Info Builders Sees Strong Mid-Market Growth

  May 22, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Now that IBM has chosen it as the basis for its System i business intelligence offering, Information Builders is ramping up its sales and marketing efforts for WebFOCUS, the Java-based reporting tool that will replace Query/400 and that IBM will resell as DB2 Web Query for System i. Last week, Info Builders announced several new “midmarket” customers have adopted WebFOCUS, including the Hillman Group, Star Lumber, ABC Financial, and Eastern Mountain Sports (EMS). While the company didn’t say specifically that these customers will run WebFOCUS on System i, the fact is that at least two of them–Hillman Group and Star

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• Elite Adds Card Payment Processing Option

  May 22, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Elite Document Solutions, the document management software developer that was recently acquired by Vanguard Systems, the developer of the IMS21 imaging system, has added credit card processing to its recently introduced signature capture offering. Last year, Elite rolled out Electronic Signature Capture, a piece of software that enables employees to capture signatures with each order, and to have the signature stored alongside other pertinent documents in Elite’s document management and archive system. The signature offering works in both mobile and local environments, and is particularly useful as a way of proving a delivery was made. According to Elite,

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• IBM: SOA Fits Skills Shortage to a ‘T’

  May 22, 2007 Alex Woodie

  IBM said yesterday that more than 4,500 of its customers have modeled their businesses around service oriented architecture (SOA), the latest sign that SOA is having a big impact in business IT. The revelation was made at its inaugural IMPACT 2007 conference being held this week in Orlando, Florida, where Big Blue stepped up its SOA drum-beating with an assortment of new certification, training, partnership, and marketing programs concerning “T-shaped” skills. According to Steve Mills, head of IBM Software, SOA is having a real-world impact on businesses, as well as IBM’s bottom-line. “SOA has been a growth engine for IBM

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• IBM Tweaks i5 515 and 525 User-Based Prices

  May 21, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  After getting lots of feedback from customers, resellers, and independent software developers who have been reacting to the announcement of the user-priced System i5 515 and 525 Power5+ servers, IBM has made some modifications to the way software is priced on the boxes. The change in pricing gives the i5 515 and 525 servers a better fit into the way certain kinds of customers make use of the box, and it also shows that IBM wants to react fast to any feedback from customers to get the pricing right. When the i5 515 and 525 servers were launched on April

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• An i5 Platform: Q&A with Marlin Equity’s Top Brass

  May 21, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  An i5 Platform: Q&A with Marlin Equity’s Top Brass Two weeks ago, Marlin Equity Partners, a relative newcomer in the private equity business that was founded by people with more than a passing familiarity with the i5/OS and OS/400 ecosystem, acquired Aldon, one of the big providers of application lifecycle development tools in the System i market. The top brass at Marlin Equity, which has big plans for the i5 market, took some time out of their schedules to chat about those plans and to explain why they are entering the market as an investment platform for the

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• The Gulf Between Buyers and Sellers Widens in IT,

  May 21, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Says IDC The analysts at IDC spend a lot of time talking to IT suppliers to understand their strategies and products, and they spend a similarly large amount of time talking to IT managers and C-level executives to try to understand the challenges they face in their data centers. A new report put out by IDC this week focuses on the interface between the two–where IT buyer meets IT seller. As anyone who follows the quarterly results of the major public IT players can attest to, many complain from time to time–some, more frequently–about lengthening product sales cycles and smaller

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• As I See It: Operating on Overload

  May 21, 2007 Victor Rozek

  If the name Conrad Gesner is unfamiliar, it’s probably because you’re either not a librarian or weren’t around in the 16th century when Gesner walked the earth. Born in Switzerland, Gesner was a naturalist and a scholar, but he is known to librarians as the creator of the bibliography. And what an ambitious accomplishment it was! Known as the Bibliotheca universalis, it was written in three languages–Greek, Latin, and Hebrew–and it listed all of the writers who had ever lived and the titles of all their works. No surprise then that Gesner was also among the first to have

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