If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, iTera and Maximum Availability have got to be blushing by now. Lakeview Technology, considered by many to be the top dog of the OS/400 high availability racket, is finally going head to head with the companies from Utah and New Zealand, with a remote-journaling-based high availability solution for the small and midsized business (SMB) marketplace.

Lakeview says that MIMIX ha Lite addresses areas customers often complain about when it comes to OS/400 high availability software–namely cost, complexity, and ease of use. The Chicago company based its new software on IBM‘s

OS/400 shops developing large-scale, transaction-intensive enterprise Java (J2EE) applications will soon have new tools from Versata to help them. Late last week the Oakland, California, company announced plans to support the iSeries with its Versata Logic Suite, a two-part product suite that combines Java development tools and runtime components that operate within IBM‘s WebSphere and BEA Systems‘ WebLogic application servers.

Versata is a publicly traded company focused on providing J2EE development tools for Fortune 1000 companies looking for a way to automate the handling of the business logic that drives their high transaction business systems. The company says

Electronic Storage Corp. has added full PDF indexing to its LaserVault Universal Server, giving users the same capability to search for archived PDF documents as they’ve had for finding other types of documents stored with LaserVault. ESC also announced a new release of Content Express, a LaserVault add-on for distributing documents electronically, that provides new faxing features.

LaserVault is a Windows-based archiving product that has reduced the paper storage needs of more than 1,000 companies, many of which are OS/400 shops. The software accepts print spool files from host systems–such as mainframe, Unix, Windows, or OS/400 servers–indexes the files, compresses

New change management capabilities released by Aldon Computer Group last week should make it easier for companies to manage application development projects across a range of operating systems. The Version 4.1 release of Aldon’s Affiniti software configuration management (SCM) system includes two new features: a shortcut that launches the correct Windows development tool for OS/400 development and new project management capabilities.

First released in 2000, Affiniti extends the change management capabilities that Aldon developed for the OS/400 server, with Aldon/CMS, to client/server, Java, and Web-based development work. No matter whether development occurs in RPG, COBOL, C++, HTML, or Java–or is