When IBM decided to abandon its Wireless Connection for AS/400 with OS/400 V5R1, many companies were left in the lurch to replace their wireless barcode scanning system. One of the companies that relied on Wireless Connection was Interamerican Motor Corp., a California company that imports and distributes foreign auto parts. Without a solid substitute, IMC had cycled through three different products since 2001, but eventually found what it considers a good replacement with eBusiness Solution Pros‘ Stay Linked OS/400 software.

From its headquarters near Los Angeles, IMC uses an iSeries Model 820 server to control the flow of 80,000

GST last week announced the availability of its newest line of iSeries-compatible tape drives using Sony Electronics‘ Super Advanced Intelligent Tape (SAIT-1) technology. With a compressed capacity of 1.3 TB (500 GB native), 108 GB per hour native transfer rate, and “write once, read many” capability, GST says its new SAIT-1 tape drives and library will appeal to midrange shops with large amounts of data to back up, or to those that need to tamper-proof their archives to comply with new regulations.

The SAIT-1 tape drive, which Sony launched in early 2003, was the first tape drive to break

Expand Networks, a manufacturer of network compression and acceleration appliances, has started 2004 with a bang. Yesterday the Roseland, New Jersey, company announced its largest bandwidth optimization device yet, a box for large data centers that handles 200 Mbps of raw bandwidth and supports 1,500 WAN nodes. It also has two new customers in the insurance business: one that bought nearly 3,500 acceleration devices for $5 million, and another that reports up to 7:1 compression on MIMIX network replication.

Expand Networks has devised a novel way to squeeze much more IP traffic into a given pipe than it could

iSeries shops that want to let users update their Apache Web sites using Microsoft‘s FrontPage Web authoring software can now do so using free software recently made available by Ready-to-Run Software. In accordance with a contract with IBM, Ready-to-Run in late December made the Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions available for iSeries, pSeries, and zSeries boxes running Novell‘s SuSE Linux 8.0 and the Apache Web server, providing FrontPage authors an alternative to Microsoft’s own IIS Web Server.

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Since Microsoft launched its FrontPage Web authoring software, about six years ago, it has relied on Ready-to-Run to