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Open Text Taps Attunity for Data Connectors

January 12, 2010 Alex Woodie

Open Text is the latest ISV to partner up with Attunity for its line of real-time data integration products. As a result of the deal, Open Text hopes to bolster its capability to help customers decommission their legacy content management applications and accelerate the adoption of Open Text’s ECM suite.

Attunity specializes in developing real-time data integration software called change data capture (CDC) that supports DB2/400, IBM mainframes, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and other enterprise database platforms. The company claims that its log-based CDC technology has very little impact on the host, which gives it an advantage over other

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Kingland OEMs MDM Technology from IBM

January 12, 2010 Alex Woodie

Kingland Systems, a developer of financial services software for i OS and other platforms, is embedding IBM‘s Infosphere Master Data Management (MDM) software into 360 Data, its global database of legal entities, corporate hierarchies, and securities, the vendors announced last week.

Based in Clear Lake, Iowa, Kingland Systems provides an array of software and services to its customers, which are some of the biggest financial services firms in the country. The company’s offerings include brokerage software, compliance and risk management services, data management services, and various other technical and hosting services.

Kingland is also a big IBM Power

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Sterling Targets Smartphone-Carrying Consumers with New Mobile E-Commerce Apps

January 12, 2010 Alex Woodie

In a product announcement that was perhaps more suited to last weeks’ Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas than this week’s National Retail Federation show in New York City, Sterling Commerce yesterday unveiled a pair of new mobile e-commerce applications designed to be used by–you guessed it–consumers.

The transformation of Sterling Commerce, which is best known among OS/400 shops for its Gentran Integration Suite line of EDI translation software, has been going on for some time. Several years ago, the AT&T subsidiary announced plans to branch out of its market niche for EDI and B2B e-commerce enablement tools by developing

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Power Systems i: The Word From On High

January 11, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan

I have been shooting my mouth off about the issues facing the Power Systems i for the past month, and now it is time to let IBM have the stage for a bit while I catch my breath. Over the holiday, Big Blue posted a white paper outlining the strategy and roadmap for the i product line, which our intrepid reporter, Alex Woodie, spotted before IBM even let the trade press know it existed. This white paper has some tidbits of information that are new, which why I bring it up.

The 14-page white paper, which you can read here

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SkyView Taps New CEO to Ride the Compliance Wave

January 11, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Carol Woodbury, the former chief security architect of the OS/400 operating system and co-founder of SkyView Partners, and John Vanderwall, co-founder of SkyView and up until now its chief executive officer, have brought in some outside help to grow the company as it chases the burgeoning opportunity for security and compliance tools and services both inside the Power Systems i market and outside of it.

As 2009 was unwinding, SkyView announced that Tom Coccione, who has 22 years of experience in the IT racket, including with 13 years of selling midrange gear at IBM, has been tapped to

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CSI: Orlando

January 11, 2010 Dan Burger

First of all, there is no crime scene investigation. You’ve been watching too much television. In this case, CSI is an abbreviation for COMMON Session of Interest. I was poking around on the COMMON Annual Meeting Web site last Thursday and followed a trail to the preliminary online session guide. That hardly qualifies me as a special agent, but if you are the investigative type, I recommend you check out what’s being presented at the conference in early May.

For those who have never attended COMMON, the first thing you need to know is that it has the widest variety

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As I See It: Waiting on Hope

January 11, 2010 Victor Rozek

It’s the time of year when we reset the clock. No matter our failings and excesses of the prior year, January 1st brings with it a hopeful cleansing. Optimism abounds. This year I’m going to _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (fill in the blank): exercise more, lose weight, read the classics, write the great American novel, take tango lessons, run a marathon. Everything is possible again. Like Charlie Brown preparing to kick the Lucy-held football, we approach even the longest odds with great confidence. At least until March.

Hope appears to be a uniquely human attribute,

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IBM Adds Virtual Component to Executive Briefing Centers

January 11, 2010 Alex Woodie

Interested in setting up an executive-level briefing to learn more about the IBM Power Systems server? One option is to arrange a trip to IBM’s facility in Rochester, Minnesota, where last Thursday it was snowing with a wind chill of -20 degrees Fahrenheit. But if sub-Arctic travel isn’t your cup of tea, or your sled dogs are down with the flu, you now have the option to receive briefings remotely at IBM’s Virtual Briefing Center Web site, which was launched last week.

IBM’s System and Technology Group (STG) put its Web skills to work with the new Virtual Briefing Center

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Infor Hires AMR Researcher to be Chief Strategy Officer

January 11, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Consolidation doesn’t just hit IT vendors. It hits the companies that watch the IT vendors, too. In early December, IT consultancy Gartner announced that it was acquiring application software market expert AMR Research for $64 million in cash, and quickly followed that last week by snapping up IT consultancy Burton Group for $56 million. None of this will matter all that much to IBM midrange shops.

However, the fact that Bruce Richardson, who was the chief research officer at AMR and arguably the smartest person following the enterprise application space, has joined application software giant Infor probably will have an

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Cisco Taps Avnet to Peddle ‘California’ Unified Servers

January 11, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan

This is one that you could have seen coming a million miles away. With only two master resellers in the global server racket, it was only a matter of time before either Arrow Electronics or Avnet started distributing the “California” Unified Computing System converged blade servers from Cisco Systems.

While The Four Hundred was on holiday in December, Avnet announced that its Technology Solutions group, the part of the company that peddles servers, storage, networking gear, and such, had inked a distribution agreement with Cisco that allows Avnet and its downstream channel partners so certified to push the California

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