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  • Redefining Security the New Goal of Former i5/OS Security Architect

    January 9, 2008 Alex Woodie

    There’s a serious problem with the state of security in the IT industry, according to Pat Botz, former i5/OS security architect with IBM. The problem isn’t a lack of tools and technologies for implementing security. Instead, the root of the problem stems from a lack of leadership from business people, who have given too much responsibility to the technical experts. Botz recently left IBM to work on this problem with his new consulting company Group8 Security, which formally launches next week.

    To hear Botz talk about the state of computer security is a little bewildering. One goes into

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  • Redefining Security the New Goal of Former i5/OS Security Architect

    January 9, 2008 Alex Woodie

    There’s a serious problem with the state of security in the IT industry, according to Pat Botz, former i5/OS security architect with IBM. The problem isn’t a lack of tools and technologies for implementing security. Instead, the root of the problem stems from a lack of leadership from business people, who have given too much responsibility to the technical experts. Botz recently left IBM to work on this problem with his new consulting company Group8 Security, which formally launches next week.

    To hear Botz talk about the state of computer security is a little bewildering. One goes into

    …

    Read more
  • Redefining Security the New Goal of Former i5/OS Security Architect

    January 9, 2008 Alex Woodie

    There’s a serious problem with the state of security in the IT industry, according to Pat Botz, former i5/OS security architect with IBM. The problem isn’t a lack of tools and technologies for implementing security. Instead, the root of the problem stems from a lack of leadership from business people, who have given too much responsibility to the technical experts. Botz recently left IBM to work on this problem with his new consulting company Group8 Security, which formally launches next week.

    To hear Botz talk about the state of computer security is a little bewildering. One goes into

    …

    Read more
  • IBM Slashes Linux SupportLine Prices for System i and p

    November 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    One of the key differentiators that IBM has always brought to bear on the midrange is well-regarded technical support for operating systems and related systems software. OS/400 and AIX have always had top-notch tech support–at least compared to their peers on other platforms. The advent of Linux, which is not controlled by Big Blue, presented a bit of a challenge to the company. But IBM has woven Linux into its SupportLine tech support services on its System i and System p Power-based platforms. Last week, the company dramatically reduced the cost of Linux support.

    For several years now, IBM has

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  • Lawson and IBM Target Retailers and Manufacturers in Germany

    November 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    ERP software supplier Lawson Software has a much tighter relationship with IBM these days after it acquired European ERP software supplier Intentia International and after Oracle ate PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Siebel Systems. IBM’s latest thing in the midrange is precision customer targeting, and Lawson is, like other independent software vendors, trying to dance to the tune that Big Blue is calling.

    In February, IBM and Lawson inked a general deal to sell more software and server iron to SMB customers across the world, and then following in the spirit of IBM’s Vertical Industry Program (VIP) for System i sales,

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  • BluePhoenix Raises a $35 Million War Chest

    November 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    BluePhoenix Solutions, the Herzliya, Israel, software company that provides legacy application modernization tools for the System i midrange and System z mainframe platforms, said last week that it is raising a $35 million war chest.

    Specifically, BluePhoenix says it is selling 2 million shares at $17.50 a pop in a private placement, which is a different way of raising money than from a public offering. BluePhonix is already a public company, of course, and is traded on the NASDAQ National Market. But of the 17.97 million shares the company has controlling its ownership, only 6.3 million of them are

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  • Top Execs at TomorrowNow Depart, SAP Hints at Sale

    November 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    ERP software giant SAP said last week that several top executives at its TomorrowNow unit, which sells third-party support for various Oracle ERP suites, have resigned. The company also said in a statement that it was exploring its options for the TomorrowNow unit, including selling it.

    TomorrowNow offers independent support for customers using PeopleSoft, JDE, and Siebel software suites. No software company is happy when a third party is offering support for its products, but Oracle was obviously unhappy when SAP acquired TomorrowNow in January 2005.

    SAP did not explain in its statement the reasons why Andrew Nelson, TomorrowNow’s chief

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  • Is There an NSA Back Door in Encryption Algorithms?

    November 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    In general, security is not a beat we cover very deeply at IT Jungle. The enterprise-class platforms we cover are all designed with many different kinds of security, and we let experts worry about the very hairy details that go into securing platforms, much as end users themselves do when they trust encryption, antivirus, firewall, and other kinds of code. But what happens when the encryption code behind these products is flawed.

    A recent story in Wired magazine had a title that jumped out like a criminal wielding a gun: Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard?

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  • IBM Slashes Linux SupportLine Prices for System i and p

    November 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    One of the key differentiators that IBM has always brought to bear on the midrange is well-regarded technical support for operating systems and related systems software. OS/400 and AIX have always had top-notch tech support–at least compared to their peers on other platforms. The advent of Linux, which is not controlled by Big Blue, presented a bit of a challenge to the company. But IBM has woven Linux into its SupportLine tech support services on its System i and System p Power-based platforms. Last week, the company dramatically reduced the cost of Linux support.

    For several years now, IBM has

    …

    Read more
  • Reader Feedback on Native .NET for System i

    November 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Last week, I solicited some information from readers of The Four Hundred to see if having some sort of native .NET programming environment on the System i machine would be a benefit to the System i platform. A number of vendors were pondering the idea, so I threw it out to the base to see not only if this was important, but if the lack of .NET support was in any way driving people off the i5/OS and OS/400 platform and onto Windows.

    Here’s a sampling of the responses IT Jungle received, starting with a question:

    I am having a

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