Thousands of companies that rely on the World ERP system can breathe a little easier now that Oracle has pledged to support and enhance it. In the first public announcement of its intentions for the software product line, Oracle co-president Charles Phillips said his company plans to offer the same level of maintenance and support that PeopleSoft provided. Phillips also said Oracle plans to support the iSeries and competitive databases, although it’s dependent on cooperation with IBM and Microsoft.

The half-hour “town hall” session hosted by Phillips on December 20 was intended to be the last public communication about

Sometimes the actions of users can have unintended consequences, like that seemingly innocent query that Jane in accounting set off this morning, which is now threatening to bring down the system. And while the shipping department folks know they’re not supposed to FTP documents from the iSeries anymore, somebody back there is still doing it. These are two actions that new OS/400 software from CCSS would pick up for you, before they cause crashes or arouse attention from auditors.

QSystem Monitor is a client/server application that shows system administrators how their iSeries servers are using system resources, such as database

German software developer Menten is selling a suite of OS/400 tools called i-effect that’s designed to help users manage their iSeries data. Available in the U.S. as well as Europe, the 13-part i-effect suite is made up of products the company previously sold under different names, and which address many aspects of day-to-day iSeries operations, such as converting spool files to more popular formats or freeing up disk space by compressing archives.

Menten EDV-Beratung GmbH has been developing OS/400 data from its headquarters in Bergisch Gladbach, near Cologne, since 1989. Last May, the company decided to merge its respective ascon,

When Inovis bought IP Net Solutions, in 2003, it was viewed as a good acquisition–and it was. With its roots in the old Harbinger company, Inovis had its strength in traditional EDI translation, while IPNet Solutions complemented that with software that helps move EDI messages securely over new IP pipes. But it wasn’t until the introduction of BizManager 3.0 last month that Inovis finished the job of integrating the two product lines.

Atlanta-based Inovis was founded in 2002 from the remnants of Peregrine Systems’ EDI software business, which Peregrine had acquired from Harbinger. In August 2003, Inovis acquired its close