• LANSA Gains Entry into IBM SOA Program

  April 10, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Development tool maker LANSA has been accepted into IBM‘s SOA Specialty, a certification program created to highlight software products that can further the creation and adoption of service oriented architecture (SOA). LANSA’s primary tool for SOA development, called LANSA Integrator, was accepted into the program. There are a myriad certification programs housed deep within Big Blue’s PartnerWorld program. You’ve probably heard of the ServerProven and StorageProven certifications. Well, here’s another: IBM’s SOA Specialty, which is administered by the IBM SOA Foundation. If you’re a software vendor like LANSA, there are many hoops you must jump through in order to

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• ASNA Signs New European Reseller

  April 10, 2007 Alex Woodie

  ASNA, a provider of development tools bridging the Microsoft and iSeries worlds, boosted its European presence recently with the announcement of a new reseller partnership with INFONIQA Informationstechnik, an iSeries consultant with offices in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. INFONIQA Informationstechnik, which is part of the INFONIQA Group, has been serving AS/400 and iSeries customers in central Europe for more than 15 years. The company offers a variety of iSeries and System i services, including consultation, portfolio planning and analysis, application development, implementation and maintenance. The company is also a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner in three competencies. Derek Cooper,

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• Computer Makers Tout Ways to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Save Money

  April 10, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Replacing PCs with thin clients is on the minds of a lot of IT managers these days. But did you know that adopting thin clients can also have a positive impact on the environment? According to a report issued this week by thin client manufacturer IGEL Technology and the Fraunhofer Institute, adopting thin client computers not only saves money, but can also help reduce emissions of carbon dioxide. Meanwhile, Microsoft is also laying claim to the “green” label for work it’s done in its new Windows Vista operating system. According to the new report from IGEL and the Fraunhofer

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• Hello, New York? Buy IBM

  April 9, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  While the end of the calendar year is often when we look back and examine what we have done in the prior 12 months and even further back through the years, spring is actually a time for renewal. It is when the sap starts to run, when the juices get flowing, when the earth warms, and the sun can reach your bones again to warm you. It is perhaps fitting, then, after a warm spell here in New York followed by a cold snap just after Passover and just before Easter that I ponder the future of IBM. International

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• Security Still an Issue in 2007 for System i5 Shops

  April 9, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  If you need an example of why having all the great security features in the world doesn’t make your computer systems safe, look no further than TJX, the parent company behind the TJ Maxx and Marshalls department stores. Last week, the publicly traded company was horrified to have to announce that a hacker had broken into its systems and had stolen at least 47.5 million–and possibly more–credit card and debit card numbers used by its customers. If you are an OS/400 or i5/OS snob and you are laughing right now, and if you think the legendary security of the

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• A Trained IT Staff Is A Happy and Competitive One

  April 9, 2007 Hey, Brian

  I know that there have been many new and exciting capabilities added to the iSeries and System i platform, especially over the last five years. But I am at a loss to really know what they are in detail or how to use them. Along with the things IBM puts in the System i, there have been many other advances in technology from networking to e-commerce. Yet our management team does not find it worthwhile to encourage, authorize, and fund any of our team to attend any form of off-site professional or technical education. Are they just bad managers? With

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• As I See It: The Legacy

  April 9, 2007 Victor Rozek

  An accomplished man, perhaps a great one, died recently. Certainly he was a man who exerted great influence on the computing industry and the people in it. He had one of those rare minds whose contributions helped shape the future, in his case by domesticating what was previously a primitive collection of magnetic drums, cathode-ray tubes, tape units, and card readers. By putting the power of a wizardly but cumbersome and elitist device into the hands of the many, he literally accelerated human progress. Yet most people don’t know his name. As a boy, his destiny was far from evident.

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• Is the Adoption Rate of Server Virtualization Technology Over Estimated?

  April 9, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  According to a new report issued by The Strategic Counsel, a consultancy based in Toronto, and commissioned by systems software maker CA, the adoption rate of server virtualization technologies might not be as high as many surveys seem to indicate. It all depends on how you ask the question. The consensus out there in the server industry is that somewhere around 5 percent and well south of 10 percent of the servers that are sold each day have virtualization technology in one of its myriad forms sold along with that box. This is not a very high penetration

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• ERP Vendors CMS Software and XKO Software to Merge

  April 9, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Consolidation is not just happening at bigger software companies. It’s also happening, perhaps under the radar, at smaller software firms. For example, last week, two mid-tier ERP software providers, CMS Software and XKO Software were merged together, and like so many other deals done in the IT industry of late, the deal was financed with private equity capital. XKO’s software operations were acquired by Marlin Equity Partners, a private equity firm based in Los Angeles for an estimated $28 million back in October 2006. XKO was publicly traded in the United Kingdom, where it is located, on the AIM

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• Goldman Sachs Says IT Spending Will Soften a Bit in 2007

  April 9, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The analysts at Wall Street brokerage house Goldman Sachs take the pulse on IT spending from time to time, and according to a report published last week, the consensus of the analysts sifting through the survey data that Goldman Sachs puts together remains what it was late last year: IT spending will see a modest deceleration in 2007. Ironically, in the latest survey, the two vendors who are seeing market share slippages on some fronts in the data center–IBM and Dell–are cited as being projected to get a larger slice of the pie by the IT shops that

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