• DocPath Chooses Java for Rewrite of Document Management Tool

  April 2, 2013 Alex Woodie

  DocPath last week unveiled a new release of its document management software that has been rewritten in Java. DocPath CEO Julio Olivares says the Java rewrite not only boosts performance, but allows the software to run equally well in IBM i, Windows, Linux, and Unix environments. While the technological core of the new DocPath server runs on Java, the company chose Microsoft .NET for the new document designer. DocPath sells two lines of product, one for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and another for enterprises. The SMB offerings are traditional document management products that allow companies to generate professional-looking forms

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• Linoma Unveils PGP Encryption Tool for Desktops

  April 2, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Linoma Software last week unveiled GoAnywhere OpenPGP Studio, a free tool for encrypting and decrypting files on desktop computers running Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Unix operating systems. The software is aimed at users who periodically need to encrypt files, and will give Linoma the chance to sell additional automation capabilities via its managed file transfer (MFT) solutions. OpenPGP Studio is based on Open PGP, a free and open source encryption program that itself is based on the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption program that Phil Zimmerman released to the world in 1991. (That got Zimmerman into hot water

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• COMMON Board Elections Now Underway

  April 2, 2013 Alex Woodie

  COMMON is now holding elections for its board of directors. Four candidates are battling for three open slots. Members of the IBM i user group can vote electronically through April 9, and the winners will be announced the following day at a meeting at the COMMON conference in Austin, Texas. The COMMON slate includes two incumbents on the board of directors, Pete Helgren and Kevin Mort, and two new candidates, Yvonne Enselman and Todd Spight. Helgren and Mort were elected to the board for the first time in 2010, and must defend their posts against the new challengers. Short biographies

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• EXTOL Adds Spazio MFT/S to Product Catalog

  April 2, 2013 Alex Woodie

  EXTOL International, the provider of EDI and B2B data integration tools for IBM i and other platforms, is now in the managed file transfer (MFT) software business as the result of a new partnership with Italian software maker Primeur. As part of the partnership, which was unveiled last week, Pennsylvania-based EXTOL will add two Primeur products, Spazio MFT/S and File Governance, to the portfolio of its flagship product, Integrator. Primeur has also added Integrator to its list of offerings. According to Primeur, Spazio MFT/S is aimed at helping companies to centrally manage multiple third-party file transfer products, utilizing

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• Computer Guidance Launches iPad App for Construction Suite

  April 2, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Computer Guidance Corp. (CGC), the developer of IBM i-based ERP software for construction companies, last month unveiled a new iPad app that will boost customers’ capability to track work and workers in the field. The new Mobile eCMS suite delivers an iPad interface for CGC’s popular RPG-based Construction Management System (eCMS), and will give foremen and supervisors a new tool for managing employees and projects while on site. Three main apps are available now with Mobile eCMS, including Remote Payroll, Field Reporting, and Time & Attendance apps. The app is designed to run on iPads, and is available on Apple

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• Velocity Gets Into Oracle EBS Management Biz with velos-IT Buy

  April 2, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Velocity Technology Solutions, a managed service provider (MSP) that manages customers’ ERP systems in addition to providing the private clouds on which they run, will begin providing management of Oracle‘s E-Business Suite (EBS) ERP software as the result of its acquisition of UK-based MSP velos-IT. In a recent interview, Velocity CEO Tom Bruno strongly hinted that his private equity-backed New York City company would be making more acquisitions (it bought WTS in October 2011 to gain JD Edwards expertise). Bruno also said that it was likely Velocity would find a way to get into the management of

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• Attachmate Delivers Web Client for SFTP Tool

  April 2, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Attachmate last month unveiled two updated managed file transfer (MFT) products that work with data on IBM i and other platforms, including Reflection for Secure IT Web Edition 8.0, which delivers a new Web client for MFT activities, and FileXpress FileShot 1.9, an update to its enterprise-class MFT offering for offloading bulky email attachments. Reflection for Secure IT (RSIT) Web Edition is a new addition to its Reflection for Secure IT suite. The software enables users to initiate secure file transfers utilizing the Secure Shell (SSH)-based FTP (SFTP) functionality of the product directly from a Web browser. Previously, the suite

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• Midrange Power7+ Servers: The More Oomph You Want, The More It Costs

  April 1, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  In last week’s issue of The Four Hundred, I walked you though the pricing for various sized configurations of the new Power 750+ and Power 760+ midrange servers using IBM‘s dual-chip module (DCM) variant of the Power7+ processor. That just looked at the system hardware costs. This week, as I have done in the past, I want to walk you through how the raw computing, operating system, and Software Maintenance costs compare across each processor SKU and how those costs stack up with prior Power 750 machines. As has been the case since there was an AS/400, customers

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• Worknet Says ‘Burstable’ HA Gives Its Private IBM i Cloud An Advantage

  April 1, 2013 Alex Woodie

  IBM i shops that are seeking a private cloud in which to park production or backup applications and data have a growing number of managed service providers (MSPs) to choose from. One you may not have heard about yet is Worknet, an MSP based in Naperville, Illinois, that houses the IBM i apps of highly regulated organizations, including banks and healthcare companies. Worknet says its “burstable” high availability offering gives it an advantage over other MSPs. The private cloud business is becoming a commodity play (if it hasn’t already become one), and that’s good for customers. This includes IBM

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• Oracle Takes On IBM Power With New Sparc T5 Systems

  April 1, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Larry Ellison knows exactly who he wants to knock down in the midrange systems market, and he is not afraid to call out Big Blue by name when he makes a big processor and systems announcement, as Oracle‘s co-founder and CEO did last Tuesday. That was when Oracle launched its Sparc T5 and M5 processors and six new systems based on those homegrown chips. Ellison did not even mention Hewlett-Packard or Dell once during the launch. And for good reason. Since 2001, the Unix server business of Sun Microsystems has been the whipping boy and revenue generator for Big

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