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Micro Focus Updates RUMBA Emulator

April 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

Micro Focus issued new releases of RUMBA and Web-to-Host, its Windows- and Web-based terminal emulators that are popular in IBM i 5250 environments.

RUMBA version 8.2, which shipped in November, gains several new features aimed at bolstering user productivity, including: support for IPv6; a new on-screen spell checker that supports a custom dictionary; new support for automatic and dynamic linking; and enhancements to its desktop profile management features.

RUMBA 8.2 is also certified for FIPS 140-2, enabling it to be used in government applications. It’s also certified to be compatible with Microsoft Systems Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), as well as

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MuleSoft Taps Avalara for Automated Tax Calculation in the Cloud

April 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

The deadline for federal income tax returns is less than a week away, putting millions of Americans under the gun to get their returns finished. And while the tax code isn’t getting any easier to understand, two companies–MuleSoft and Avalara–are partnering to simplify the calculation of taxes with a new solution called iApp4Tax that will streamline the way that business software integrates with Avalara’s tax-calculation service.

The new iApp4Tax offering is sold by MuleSoft, a provider of commercial open source integration software called Mule iON that runs in the cloud, or what MuleSoft calls its integration platform as

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TIBCO to Buy LogLogic

April 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

Data broker software developer TIBCO Software will buy log management and security software provider LogLogic, the company announced last week.

LogLogic’s products are designed to store and make sense out of large amounts of log data for the purposes of security and regulatory compliance. The company sells pre-configured, Lintel-based appliances fitted with Fibre Channel network cards that can slurp in hundreds of thousands of records per second. The company also sells virtual appliances that customers can install on their own hardware.

Some of the company’s offerings are geared to long-term archives, while others are designed for real-time detection of

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Oracle Unveils New BI Apps for Exalytics Machine

April 10, 2012 Alex Woodie

Oracle last week unveiled two new business intelligence applications, called Manufacturing Analytics and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Analytics. The new offerings are certified to run on Exalytics, Oracle’s new in-memory analytics machine, and are preconfigured to work with Oracle’s E-Business Suite, although it can also work with data from JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and World and other ERP systems.

The new Manufacturing Analytics application is designed to give executives deeper insight into important elements of their companies’ operations, including manufacturing schedules, cost, quality, and service levels. The software helps customers correlate work order information with production plans, improve insight into raw

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Some Thoughts About IBM’s Next Generation Platform

April 9, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The software people at IBM are now firmly in charge of systems development at the company and are apparently trying to bring iterative software development techniques to hardware. The idea, in short, is to make hardware more modular as well as the systems software stacks that run upon that hardware so IBM can integrate new functionality into systems in an iterative fashion, perhaps several times a year, rather than a big bang system change every two or three years. This is not the dumbest thing I have ever heard.

By picking up the pace, IBM could accomplish a number

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Dell Goes After IBM Mainframe And Midrange Apps

April 9, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The road is littered with the smoking hulks of the upstart system companies and smaller software firms that have tried to attack the IBM proprietary midrange and mainframe platforms over the past four decades. And based on two key acquisitions last week, it looks like PC and server maker Dell is gearing up to take a more direct run at the System z mainframe and its baby brother, the Power Systems-IBM i platform.

Yeah, that ought to prick up more than a few ears in the IBM i market, and perhaps get more than a few vendors of application modernization

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Checking For Cracks In The Technology Foundation

April 9, 2012 Dan Burger

Have you ever come face to face with the reality that you are not getting what you paid for? You make IT investments like a Power Systems server running IBM i, but don’t come close to taking full advantage of the platform. The sad truth is that your hardware and software are loaded with unused capabilities. You paid for them, but you get value out of only the features you use. It’s sort of like paying the cable TV company for 150 channels, but never watching more than 10.

This is not a recent phenomenon, but it does seem to

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Mad Dog 21/21: Not Weather, Nor Whether But When

April 9, 2012 Hesh Wiener

In 1974, a band of self-styled revolutionaries, the Weather Underground published Prairie Fire, a manifesto explaining why and how to replace the government of the United States. Not only didn’t this happen, but two of the principals, Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, have a couple kids and mundane jobs as college teachers. If they were out to change the world today, they’d be writing revolutionary apps, not manifestos, or composing essays praising or damning those apps. And just what are those transformational apps doing? Putting money where our mouths are: In our phones.

For the past few years, people

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Maxava iFoundation Renews Grant Funding For Second Year

April 9, 2012 Jenny Thomas

It is not hard to get a room full of IBM i advocates to agree that more needs to be done to support and promote their beloved platform. But agreeing on the best ways to further the IBM i community can result in heated debate. Rather than jump into the fray, IBM i high availability and disaster recovery software developer Maxava decided to give nonprofit groups the means to offer some solutions, in the form of cold hard cash.

Maxava launched the iFoundation in March 2011 with the mission of offering financial assistance to front-line, not-for-profit organizations in their work

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Reader Feedback On IBM i Versus Oracle JDE, Smart IBM i Shops Get Connected

April 9, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Just wanted to note that for current IBM i customers like me, the Power 750 comparison doesn’t ring true. I have JDE World (yes, World) running on two IBM i machines, a System i 550 and a Power 720.

We’re looking at new ERP systems for one of the companies right now but I doubt whether I can use any of this info because our upgrade path for the System i 550 box is a Power 720 with four to eight processors, not a Power 750. We’re currently running the company comfortably on four Power6+ processors so we wouldn’t even

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