• Cybele Software Unveils z/Scope Classic Version 6

  January 16, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Cybele Software recently unveiled a new release of z/Scope Classic, a Windows-based terminal emulator for accessing OS/400, mainframe, and Unix hosts. With version 6, the product now supports VT100, VT420 (DEC), and SSH emulation. Cybele Software sells several products for accessing and integrating legacy applications. Its z/Scope product line includes several emulators designed to access certain host types, such as z/Scope Express for 5250. Customers that only need to use the IBM 5250 and 3270 protocols have a solution in the z/Scope Warp product, while z/Scope Classic, with version 6, adds Unix emulation to the mix, as well as an

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• CA Fixes Security Flaws in Backup Software

  January 16, 2007 Alex Woodie

  CA last week issued security updates that fix several vulnerabilities in BrightStor ARCserve Backup, its multi-platform backup and recovery software. On Thursday, CA notified customers about the vulnerabilities in several versions of the BrightStor ARCserve Backup product line, including versions 9 through 11, as well as its CA Protection Suites r2 product. The flaws were reported to CA by several companies, and could have allowed an attacker to take complete control of an affected system, according to Secunia, a security firm based in Denmark, which gave the flaws a “moderately critical” rating. CA posted updates that fixed the problems

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• SOA Software Joins SAP’s ‘ES Community’

  January 16, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Service oriented architecture (SOA) software developer SOA Software made big gains in the SAP ecosystem this week when it announced its products has been certified by SAP, that it has joined the software giant’s partner program, and that it will participate in SAP’s Enterprise Services Community. SAP launched the Enterprise Services Community in April 2006 to address some of the business and technical challenges in building multi-vendor SOA environments. The group set out with intentions to use SOA in three specific uses–the banking industry, radio frequency identification (RFID), and geospatial information systems. Since then, it has scoped out specific ways

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• IBM to Open Eight SOA Centers Worldwide

  January 16, 2007 Alex Woodie

  IBM yesterday announced plans to open two centers, in Dubai and France, dedicated to the pursuit of service oriented architecture (SOA) technology. Big Blue expects eventually to have eight SOA centers around the world, in Asia, North America, South America, and Northern Europe. According to IBM, the new centers will serve as a focal point for the training, implementation, and demonstration of SOA technology, both developed by IBM and by its partners. The centers will be staffed by IBM SOA experts, and will also count university students and representatives of ISVs as participants. “Opening these centers is a direct response

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• Zend Core for i5/OS Ships for OS/400 V5R3

  January 15, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  After a brief beta testing period to make sure everything works alright, Zend Technology‘s enterprise-grade PHP software, Zend Core for i5/OS V5R4 has been back-ported to the earlier OS/400 V5R3 release. Zend Core for i5/OS 1.6, which runs on both i5/OS V5R4 as well as on OS/400 V5R3, went into beta in early December. The software is available for free for customers with these two operating systems, which support a range of iSeries and System i5 hardware. By supporting Zend Core on V5R3, IBM and Zend have significantly extended the reach of PHP on the OS/400 and i5/OS platform.

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• Why the Number of Women in IT Is Decreasing

  January 15, 2007 Mary Lou Roberts

  At its Fall Symposium last October, Gartner braved an interesting and controversial topic, examining the reports that women are reportedly entering the information technology workforce in fewer and fewer absolute numbers and in fewer numbers than the decrease of women in the workforce in general is showing up in other professions. Why this is happening, and why this is a serious problem that companies need to address? As a woman who cut her professional teeth in the IT world at the same time that Helen Reddy was singing “I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar,” I was immensely interested in Gartner’s

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• Next Generation ERP and the Rise of the Agile Organization

  January 15, 2007 Jerome Peloquin

  Note: This is the third and final article of a series. I recommend reading the first two articles, but it is not absolutely necessary to understand this article. Links to the previous articles are provided at the end of this story. In the two preceding articles, I put forth our view of the use of ERP technology to leverage human performance. I argued that information is the fuel that feeds the performance engine, and technology is the delivery system. Just as the pipelines and tankers must be available to keep refineries running, so must technology be able to deliver the

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• Mad Dog 21/21: Between y o u and i

  January 15, 2007 Hesh Wiener

  IBM started it. The company’s 1994 annual report had a plain white cover sporting y o u in very large letters. IBM did it again in 2000, rebranding its midrange as iSeries, but that was two years after Apple introduced its iMac. IBM completely missed its chance in mainframes, where it could have called the z9 the zMine. Apple launched its iPod in 2001, and it showed the iPhone just this month, weeks after Time magazine made You its Person of the Year. The echoes persist for a daffy generation whose narcissism may be its nemesis. There’s

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• Reader Feedback on The System iWant, 2007 Edition

  January 15, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Readers piped up a bit on the System iWant, 2007 Edition, a hypothetical System i5 product line I dreamed up with user-capped pricing across the entry and midrange portions of the product line. No one said it was crazy, but if you want IBM to actually do this, you need to start telling Big Blue to get on with it. Here’s a sample of the feedback; some of it cannot be printed in a family newsletter, but was much appreciated by me. (Wink, wink.) I just wanted to say that this article is one of the best that I

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• IDC Says Global IT Spending Will Kiss $1.5 Trillion By 2010

  January 15, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Having made their projections for IT spending in 2007, the analysts at IDC have put a high sheen on their crystal balls and looked out further to project what the IT budgets of 2010 might look like in the aggregate. And if things pan out as IDC expects, then IT spending in 2010 should come in at just under $1.5 trillion. To be specific, IDC is projecting that between 2006 and 2010, IT spending worldwide will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 6.3 percent, rising from $1.16 trillion in 2006 to $1.48 trillion in 2010. The forecast that

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