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  • Aldon Joins Microsoft’s Midrange Alliance Program

    January 23, 2007 Alex Woodie

    Aldon has joined the growing ranks of OS/400 ISVs aligned with Microsoft‘s Midrange Alliance Program (MAP), the software company announced last week.

    Aldon, which is based in Emeryville, California, says joining the MAP will further the company’s goal of helping customers bridge the gap between their IBM iSeries and Microsoft Windows applications.

    “Joining the MAP solidifies Aldon’s strategy to help our customers get more from their existing investments while providing increased interoperability between various platforms and technologies,” says Matt Scholl, Aldon’s chief operating officer. “We look forward to working with Microsoft on driving many successful platform integration projects for

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  • Infor Boosts SRM Offering

    January 23, 2007 Alex Woodie

    Midrange ERP giant Infor unveiled new supplier relationship management (SRM) software last week. SupplyWEB version 10 includes new features designed to improve collaboration between customers and suppliers, and brings new tools designed to enhance data accuracy and demand and order management.

    SupplyWeb is an internally developed product that’s based on technology Infor obtained in its June 2003 acquisition of Future 3 and its December 2002 acquisition of BRAIN North America, an automotive ERP software company, according to Kevin Piotrowski, the company’s director of industry and product marketing for the automotive sector. It runs on Windows and Linux, but supports OS/400

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  • nuBridges Goes ‘Any-to-Any’ With New B2B File Transfer Tool

    January 23, 2007 Alex Woodie

    nuBridges this month launched a new business-to-business (B2B) file transfer product called Secure Transaction Manager that’s designed to transmit data over practically any protocol, including AS1, AS2, AS3, HTTP, HTTP/S, FTP, and FTP/S, using SSL2, SSL3, or TSL1.

    nuBridges launched STM to fill what it perceived as a gap in the market for file transfer products. “Moving information isn’t getting any easier, or any safer,” says Gary Palgon, a product manager with Atlanta-based nuBridges. “Whether between companies, branch offices, or even departments in the same enterprise, it’s a challenge exchanging data with so many varying transfer protocols and file-size limitations.”

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  • Aras Delivers Open Source PLM Software

    January 23, 2007 Alex Woodie

    When you think about “open source software,” chances are good the word “Linux” is lurking close by. That’s a mindset that Microsoft would love to change, and it got some help in that regard this week when product lifecycle management (PLM) software developer Aras announced that its flagship Windows-based Innovator product suite is now available, free of charge, under an open source licensing model.

    Aras is a Lawrence, Massachusetts, developer of tools designed to help programmers and managers maintain their existing systems and build new functionality without stepping on each other’s toes, going over budget, missing deadlines, or bungling project

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  • Big Blue Readies Revamped Storage for the System i

    January 22, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    The new year is in full swing, and the scuttlebutt is that IBM is readying some System i5 announcements in the coming months. While an operating system or server announcement–or both–are possible, as far as I can tell from the rumors what IBM is focusing on in the early part of 2007 is revamping the storage on the System i5 line a bit, including a new disk controller, possibly a fatter disk, new disk enclosures, and maybe a new LTO tape library.

    The new disk controller and the disk enclosures will probably be the most appealing thing to System i5

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  • IBM Closes Out 2006 With a Strong Fourth Quarter

    January 22, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    IBM may have started out 2006 with some bumps and bruises as various hardware, software, and services products were a bit stuck in the mud. But as the year progressed and Big Blue tweaked these businesses–and IT departments rushed to spend down their budgets for the year–the company was able to ramp up its sales, ending the year with a strong fourth quarter. Revenues in the fourth quarter were up 7.5 percent, to $26.3 billion, with earnings up 11.1 percent to $3.5 billion.

    As in the third quarter, high-end servers (particularly mainframes and Unix boxes), software (particularly database and middleware),

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  • Zend Describes Multiple Instances on i5/OS, Previews RPG Wrapper

    January 22, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    As I explained in last week’s issue, Zend Technologies, the creator of the open source PHP programming language and the company that provides commercial support for PHP and related products, announced that it had extended support for its Zend Core for i5/OS platform to include not just the current i5/OS V5R4 operating system, but also the prior OS/400 V5R3 release. Which is great. And as part of that rollout, there has been some confusion about the ability of the hybrid Zend-PASE and OS/400-Apache combo to support multiple Apache instances driven by Zend Core.

    The Zend Core for i5/OS software

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  • Ask TPM: The Economics of Open Source Software

    January 22, 2007 Hey, TPM

    You are incredibly insightful about the IT world, at least insofar as I can understand your arguments. That’s a compliment. Sometimes I come away puzzled by your analysis. You have one article on the projected lack of IT talent per PwC. Then there is an article projecting collapse for expensive proprietary packages because the open source community is going to provide free applications software. A free ERP–wow!

    [Editor’s note: The reader is referring to PwC Consultants Predict an IT Talent Shortage, from the December 4 issue of this newsletter, and The X Factor: You Can’t Steal What’s Free, But

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  • USPTO Elaborates on 2006’s Issued Patents and Backlog

    January 22, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    After the piece we ran last week about the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office not announcing its annual top 10 ranking of companies granted patents and another company putting out its own rankings based on the USPTO’s own data, Brigid Quinn, the deputy director of public affairs gave me a call to provide a little more information on why USPTO was stopping the practice and to provide some of the numbers that I had asked to see in my piece.

    First of all, USPTO will in April release a report that details the patents granted to companies with more than

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  • New Congress, AT&T Revive the Net Neutrality Issue

    January 22, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    New Congress, AT&T Revive the Net Neutrality Issue

    The merger of AT&T (formerly regional telecom company SBC Communications and AT&T) with BellSouth (another regional former Bell company) at the end of December revived the debate over “net neutrality,” which seeks to keep service levels on the Internet the same for all users and to prevent telcos and other service providers from creating a multi-tier network with different levels of service and pricing. The new Democratically controlled Congress in the United States has also reached across the aisle in the Senate to one Republican to propose an amendment to telecom law

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