• CCSS Addresses SOX Requirements in QMessage Monitor

  April 24, 2007 Alex Woodie

  There’s a lot of stuff sitting in your logs that auditors would like to know about. But sometimes it can be a pain to get to them, and even more of a pain to store them. i5/OS systems management tool developer CCSS is addressing this market need with a new release of QMessage Monitor that facilitates easy archiving, removal and printing of the message history. The new release also provides better monitoring of FTP activity, among other features. QMessage Monitor is a message management solution for single- and multi-site OS/400 and i5/OS implementations. The software constantly watches a variety of

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• Curl Re-Emerges at Web 2.0

  April 24, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Curl unfurled its second act at the Web 2.0 conference last week in San Francisco. The New England scripting language developer–which was once touted by AMR Research‘s Bruce Richardson as developing suitable “preservation” technology for the AS/400–is rebranding its language as a Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform for service oriented architecture (SOA) interfaces. Curl was originally created at MIT as a class project for the U.S. government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Twelve students and scientists involved in the project, led by computer scientist Stephen Ward, Michael Dertouzos (the late director of the MIT computer science lab), and

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• Lawson Signs Five Companies to M3 Contracts

  April 24, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Lawson Software announced five new M3 customers last week, including European companies Enia Carpet Group, Bygma, Johannes Fog, and Plus Orthopedics, and Guatemala-based Koramsa. The new contracts were signed during the company’s third quarter, which ended February 28. Enia Carpet Group is a €190 million (about $250 million) Swiss manufacturer of flooring materials, including paper, steel, textile, foil, and high-quality residential and commercial carpeting. The company will replace an existing ERP system with M3, a Java-based ERP system that is traditionally, but not always, run on an IBM iSeries server. Enia’s initial plans call for installing M3 at its facilities

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• Magic Develops iBOLT for SAP R/3, mySAP

  April 24, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Magic Software last week unveiled a special edition of its iBOLT integration software designed to work specifically with SAP‘s R/3 and mySAP ERP suite. Magic broke iBOLT off from its flagship eDeveloper IDE in 2003 and packaged it as a wizard-driven enterprise application integration suite that helps customers integrate their business applications using an array of the latest standards and techniques, including Web services and service oriented architecture (SOA). The software, which includes development, runtime, and monitoring components, is very extensible and supports an array of integration types, including workflow and composite functionality, B2B and application-to-application (EDI) functionality, and

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• Jupiter Taps MobileHWY for Mobile Building Permit Program

  April 24, 2007 Alex Woodie

  The city of Jupiter, Florida, has deployed MobileHWY‘s PC-based field automation solution, called MobileHWY INSPECTOR, to provide remote, offline access to its OS/400-based building permit and inspection software from Sungard/HTE, the software vendor announced last week. Jupiter, like many communities in Florida, is dealing with big changes in the face of unprecedented population growth. With the population in unincorporated Jupiter projected to increase 33 percent by 2010, the town’s building department has its work cut out for it if it hopes to maintain the cozy small-town feel. While the new software from MobileHWY won’t affect supply and demand,

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• Reporting Tool Works with i5/OS Trucking Software

  April 24, 2007 Alex Woodie

  i5/OS trucking software developer Innovative Computing recently announced Scriptor, a new data access and reporting tool that works with Innovative Enterprise Software (IES), the company’s flagship fleet management system for the System i server. Scriptor was designed to provide IES users with quick access to important information such as load, billing, and equipment information. The software also brings predefined reports providing IES users with key performance indicators (KPI) measuring equipment productivity and utilization, customer service, and revenue analysis, among other performance measurements. Innovative hopes that, by making this information available from a graphical interface navigated with a mouse as opposed

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• Help/Systems Issues Another Update for Robot/SCHEDULE

  April 24, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Help/Systems last week rolled out an update to Robot/SCHEDULE version 10 that allows it to fully leverage the new capabilities in the latest release of Robot/NETWORK, its cross-product systems automation solution for organizations with multiple System i servers. Robot/SCHEDULE is Help/Systems job scheduler for i5/OS and OS/400 systems. In late 2006, the company rolled out Robot/SCHEDULE 10.0, which introduced a new Java-based management console, called the Robot/SCHEDULE Explorer, which provided streamlined access to information about jobs and their schedules. Then, earlier this month, the company launched version 10 of Robot/NETWORK, which also brought a new Java-based Explorer interface. While the

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• Power6: Later in 2007 Rather than Sooner?

  April 23, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  There is some hubbub in the server market that IBM‘s Power6 processors have shifted to a later ship date than perhaps Big Blue had planned. It is hard to say for sure exactly what is going on, since IBM does not provide future ship dates for products that are not announced and has vagued up the product roadmaps it shows partners and customers in recent weeks. But IBM’s press relations and top executives have said repeatedly that Power6 will ship in systems in the second half of 2007. A few months ago, a typo in a press release said

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• Slowing U.S. Sales Hurt IBM’s First Quarter

  April 23, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  IBM reported its financial results for the first quarter of 2007 last Tuesday, kicking off the earnings season for the year for the major players in the IT market. Big Blue’s sales were just a hair over $22 billion, up 6.6 percent, with net income of $1.8 billion, up 8 percent. The interesting news is that sales were flat in the United States, and as you might expect, sales in the booming Asia/Pacific region helped give IBM growth. Europe, which is often a problem area when it comes to growth for IBM, helped out this time, too, thanks in large

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• Reader Feedback on User-Priced System i Boxes

  April 23, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  It is hard to say for sure how the new user-priced System i 515 and 525 servers will do in the market. I am optimistic that the machines can do a better job of competing in certain situations, particularly among customers who might otherwise install ERP-style software on Windows machines or, worse still, move off the System i5 to a Windows box as part of an ERP upgrade. Having not done the math yet myself on how the boxes compare, I think it is appropriate to share with you some of the initial reader feedback we have received. Oh, yes!

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