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  • Soltis Tapped for Vision Solutions Advisory Group and Road Shows

    February 16, 2009 Dan Burger

    Frank Soltis, recently retired from the iSeries chief scientist job at IBM and widely acknowledged as the father of the AS/400, isn’t the rocking chair type. Anyone who knows him would not have expected Soltis to stay on the porch in his post-IBM days. Last week, he popped up over at Vision Solutions.

    The high availability and disaster recovery powerhouse has tapped Soltis to become a member of its technology advisory board, a group of approximately 25 that includes industry experts, customers, business partners, and the Vision Solutions brain trust.

    The advisory group is hand-picked by Vision’s vice president

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  • Reader Feedback on The X Factor: Head in the Clouds

    February 16, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Good, thoughtful comments from readers of The Four Hundred are always welcome. My suggestion a few weeks ago, in an article entitled The X Factor: Head in the Clouds, that someone–meaning you people, certainly not me–should get RPG running out there on cloud infrastructure like Amazon‘s EC2 cloud, got one reader thinking about what the real issue with clouds and open source RPG compilers is: the apps, not the tools to run them.

    Check it out.

    Timothy:

    Why would someone programming for a cloud use RPG?

    I would agree that some people are stubborn and their preference for

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  • Arrow Hit by X64 Downturn, Proprietary Servers Do OK

    February 16, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    IT and electronics distributor Arrow Electronics finished up its fourth quarter and year at the end of December, and considering how bad off the economy seems to be around the world, the numbers could have been worse.

    Arrow said that sales fell by 7.5 percent to $4.09 billion, and if the acquisition of LOGIX was excluded, sales would have dropped by 12 percent. The company booked $44.4 million in restructuring and integration charges, which ate into operating income and forced the company to report $43.2 million in net earnings, down 62.1 percent. For the full year, Arrow posted $16.8 billion

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  • IBS Sales Decline in Q4, Windows ERP Suite Ramps Up

    February 16, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Like many application software sellers, IBS, the Swedish ERP software maker that sells RPG and Java variants on the i platform and that is working to port its Java-based ERP suite to Microsoft‘s Windows server stack, is struggling in this tough economic environment. But the company is also hanging in there despite the challenging environment.

    In the fourth quarter ended in December, IBS reported sales of SEK 612.4 million, a decline of 14 percent from the year-ago period. (That’s Swedish krona, which at current exchange rates trades at 8.6 to the U.S. dollar.) Software license sales fell by

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  • IBM Creates a Cloud Computing Division

    February 16, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    You know that Big Blue is getting serious about something when it creates a formal division to manage it. Last week, IBM announced that it was creating a cloud computing division just as it had also announced that key systems software would soon be available for deployment on Amazon‘s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

    Technically speaking, Erich Clementi, who is currently IBM’s vice president for strategy and who was formerly a general manager of the Business Systems division (which peddles gear to small and medium businesses) and the System z mainframe business, is now also general manager of Enterprise Initiatives,

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  • SaaS to Get a Bump Up from the Down Economy?

    February 16, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Different waves of computing have been fostered as much by economic hard times as they have been by technological gadgetry and buzz. Some technological transitions start out as good ideas, but bad economies turn them from interesting ideas for some future time to products that must be tried out right now in an effort to cut costs or improve the running of the company in some way. So it might be in 2009 with software as a service, or SaaS.

    According to a report just released by IDC entitled Economic Crisis Response: Worldwide Software as a Service Forecast Update,

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  • Linoma Refines Data Distribution Tasks with GoAnywhere 2.0

    February 10, 2009 Alex Woodie

    Linoma Software recently announced and shipped a new version of its data distribution tool for i5/OS, Windows, Linux, and Unix servers. With GoAnywhere 2.0, Linoma has bolstered the browser-based product’s capability to integrate into Windows and open systems environments. It also buoyed the interface with Web 2.0-style attributes, added more automation, and generally refined the product to give customers more control over their data distribution tasks.

    Linoma has been in the secure data distribution business for some time. Its first product, the Java-based Transfer Anywhere tool, which debuted in 2002, found success with companies looking to automate the movement of

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  • DB2 Web Query Goes Multiplatform

    February 10, 2009 Alex Woodie

    Information Builders and IBM announced last week that they are collaborating to build an adapter that allows the DB2 Web Query for i business intelligence product to process data from non-DB2/400 databases. The first database adapter, expected later this year from Info Builders, will target SQL Server, with more database adapters expected in the future.

    DB2 Web Query is a special version of Information Builder’s WebFOCUS software that IBM announced almost two years ago. The software enables users to write queries for the DB2 for i (DB2/400) database and view the results in a Web browser. It’s designed primarily to

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  • GroundWork Revs Performance of Monitoring Tool

    February 10, 2009 Alex Woodie

    In the enterprise systems management arena, where 10,000 devices or more are continuously monitored for the slightest hiccup, performance is king. To that end, enterprise-level customers of GroundWork Open Source‘s new GroundWork Monitor version 5.3 release, unveiled today, will gain a 50 percent performance boost compared to previous versions. In addition to higher throughput, the new release brings security fixes, new operational reports, scheduling enhancements, and a new patch and update notification system.

    From its headquarters in San Francisco, GroundWork Open Source is trying to do for enterprise-level systems management what Red Hat, MySQL, and JBoss have

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  • InstallAnywhere 2009 Looks to Smooth Java App Installs

    February 10, 2009 Alex Woodie

    Software installations are notoriously fickle. Incompatible runtimes, missing drivers, non-existent libraries, and other common situations conspire to reject new programs on a fairly regular basis, causing time and productivity loss for the customer and a backlash against the software developer. Acresso, the software startup that owns the InstallShield franchise, last week unveiled a new release of the multiplatform version of the product, called InstallAnywhere 2009, that aims to thwart installation imps, particularly in Java environments.

    Acresso was formed on April 1, 2008, following the acquisition of the business software unit of Macrovision by Thoma Cressey Bravo, the private

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