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  • Retailers Not Doing Enough to Protect Financial Data: Survey

    October 21, 2008 Alex Woodie

    Despite the computer security requirements of the Payment Cardholder Industry (PCI) standard, consumers do not think retailers are doing enough to protect their vital data, suggests a new survey from Solidcore Systems. The survey from Solidcore, which supports the i OS with its real-time change control system, concludes that consumers would feel safer if an independent entity certified retailers, instead of an army of independent auditors who sometimes have different interpretations of PCI.

    Solidcore says it surveyed the opinions of more than 500 consumers from different demographic backgrounds scattered across the country. The company did not provide a margin

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  • Talend Says Its Open Source Approach for Integration Tools Has Been Validated

    October 21, 2008 Alex Woodie

    When Talend added i OS support to its suite of open source data integration tools a year ago, the company faced doubts whether the open source model could work for enterprise data integration tools, a market dominated by the likes of IBM, Informatica, and SAP. If the number of downloads, customers, and partnerships in the last year is any indication–and Talend says it is–then the model definitely works.

    Talend launched its flagship Talend Open Studio product about two years ago to capitalize on the demand for competitively priced data integration tools. The primary use of the

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  • Agilysys Wins Casino Contract, Cuts Revenue Forecast

    October 21, 2008 Alex Woodie

    A new casino-hotel being built in Mississippi will base its operations on a suite of applications that run on IBM‘s Power System (formerly System i) servers. It will be yet another casino customer for Agilysys, which dominates the field. However, even as Agilysys wins new customers, the poor economy forced the publicly traded company to lower its outlook for the rest of the year.

    The $100 million Riverwalk Casino Hotel is currently being built along the shores of the Mississippi River in the city of Vicksburg. The property will include an 80-room hotel, two restaurants, a VIP club,

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  • InfoPrint Launches a Product for Automated Document Factories

    October 21, 2008 Alex Woodie

    Companies concerned that their mailroom operations are not operating efficiently may want to check out the new Mailroom Integrity Solution unveiled by InfoPrint Solutions Company yesterday. The new offering draws on years of experience that IBM and Ricoh have in building some of the world’s largest automated document factories, or ADFs, to create a shrink-wrapped product that can benefit even mid sized companies.

    The term ADF was coined by Gartner in 1996 to describe the various activities that occur in the mailroom. The ADF discipline seeks to implement automation and control across the entire print-mail process, and encompasses six distinct

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  • Some Servers Take a Dive in IBM’s Third Quarter

    October 20, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    When IBM preannounced its revenues and earnings as the market was swooning two weeks ago in an effort to calm a staggering and falling Wall Street, the company’s overall numbers gave the impression that Big Blue was nonetheless weathering the financial storm. While this may be true in the aggregate, to IBM’s credit (don’t say credit) as an IT supplier, certain portions of its business–particularly certain server lines–didn’t do so well. Decide for yourself if this is some kind of leading indicator for the rest of 2008 and maybe 2009.

    IBM’s sales for the third quarter came to $25.3 billion,

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  • Infor CEO Preaches Business Darwinism, Prepares for Hyper Business Future

    October 20, 2008 Dan Burger

    Taking a page from Eric Marks’ book, Business Darwinism Evolve or Dissolve, Infor chairman and chief executive officer, Jim Schaper, gave the attendees at his company’s Inforum user conference last week his preview of business in the year 2015. Infor, the ERP super group that has assembled a collection of major and midrange ERP software firms that specialize in the manufacturing and distribution businesses, is in the early stages of shifting its application development to a service oriented architecture.

    The move to what Infor calls its “Open SOA,” a technology framework with middleware built in, has the aim of

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  • Ask TPM: Isn’t It Time for the i OS to Catch Mono?

    October 20, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Timothy,

    I read in a recent eWeek article that the Mono 2.0 release, which implements the features of .NET 2.0, was announced on October 6. Is there any news regarding whether IBM will ever support Mono in IBM i? (I would assume not.) We have a mixed shop here: Power Systems for our main business application and Windows/Sharepoint/.NET for our Website and intranet. I am doing both RPG and C# development.

    It would be great if we could one day run C# apps and Web services on the IBM i to potentially update our RPG program front-ends and interface with

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  • IT Shops Are Getting Wise to the Unified Communications Hype

    October 20, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    While the underlying technologies that allow us to reach out and touch someone through the telephone networks have changed dramatically and continuously over the past 50 years, the convergence of computer and telephone networks and new software to merge business applications seamlessly with telephone networks has led to much enthusiasm about so-called unified communications. And companies are getting wise to the hype.

    IT analyst firm IDC has done its fifth annual Voice over IP with InfoWorld magazine (which is owned by the same company as IDC and a slew of other IT trade rags, including ComputerWorld), and has used

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  • IBM Helps Partners Learn New Data Center Skills

    October 20, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    For as long as I have been watching the IBM midrange, the company has been trying to push more and more gear through its reseller channel and put the burden of training for sales, configuration, and support onto the partner channel. Business partners grouse about ever-lowering margins, and the pressure that comes from Moore’s Law, which makes all aspects of computing that have to do with electronics cheaper as people costs go up every year.

    The spread between the two is where the growth in the IT market has come from.

    But, if you are a business partner or an

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  • The Tech Sector Stops Adding Jobs–Cuts Soon?

    October 20, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Even before Wall Street and the other stock markets of the world started melting down with such intensity in late September and early October, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unit in the U.S. Department of Labor, was showing that computer hardware and software tech companies have stopped hiring in the States and telecommunications companies have started making cuts.

    The U.S. economy has been losing jobs all year, and in the September statistics, which you can read in detail here, the bureau calculates that 159,000 people lost their jobs. (This is the non-farm labor pool, by the way.) Jobs

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