It’s been two-and-a-half years since SSA Global first started talking about plans to converge its growing stable of OS/400-based ERP suites into a single product with a single code base. The company finally delivered on that promise last week when it announced the general availability of ERP LX, a new ERP suite that may look familiar to BPCS users, and which is intended to be the ERP system that the company’s BPCS, PRMS, KBM, PRISM, and Infinium customers eventually migrate to.

Before it became the trendy thing to do in the enterprise software space–before Oracle, PeopleSoft, and SAP initiated

Application modernization can make a person’s head spin faster than a propeller-topped beanie in a hurricane. There are many software sources for modernization, including IBM, which puts Big Blue in the position of competing with and trying to appease software vendors that are critically important to the iSeries installed base and to the iSeries ecosystem itself. Sorting though the options, platform interoperability issues, and investment considerations can easily result in information overload.

So on the heels of a major product release that centers on application modernization, LANSA put together its annual dog and pony show for its customers (end

It may seem paradoxical, but the old adage “the only constant is change” has some truth to it, especially in business. To survive in today’s turbulent business climate, it’s advisable to continually evolve to meet new demands from customers, suppliers, and the overall competitive landscape. A new version of Inventive Designers‘ XML and Java-based document management software, called Scriptura XBOS, should make it easy for users to keep their stockpile of business documents current with the day’s change.

Scriptura XBOS is a cross-platform suite of software that helps users create, maintain, and distribute business documents and forms in a

Now that IBM has decided to wind-down non TCP/IP networking and stop selling Twinax adapters for the iSeries, it might be time to bite the bullet and make the move to a TCP/IP and thin client infrastructure, if you haven’t already done so. Luckily, there are many vendors providing Windows and Linux thin client terminals for the OS/400 community. Two of those vendors, BOSaNOVA and Computer Lab International, recently improved their thin client offerings.

A couple of weeks ago, we reported how IBM plans to stop selling Twinax adapters in 2006 (see “Rochester Winds Down Non-TCP/IP Networking on the