An iSeries high availability business partner has spun off its hot site hosting business into a separate company with the goal of providing small and medium size businesses with IT resources to get their business back up and running after a disaster. SafeData, which formally launched last week, promises to put iSeries and Windows applications back online from between two and 48 hours, depending on the recovery time objectives of the client.

Peter Briggs, president and CEO of SafeData, gained experience implementing and running iSeries high availability systems with Application Design Services, a hardware reseller and consultancy that

Circuit City Stores is on a steady course set by CIO Michael Jones to revitalize select areas of its information management structure. Circuit City’s IT department is busy integrating into its core operations a new point of sale system to replace a proprietary one written in the mid-1980s. While the new POS system is Linux based, many of the company’s legacy applications run on iSeries. To guarantee the purchasing process runs smoothly and to shorten the time it takes to complete project segments, Circuit City uses automated software testing solutions from Original Software Group.

Circuit City has used OSG’s

SoftLanding Systems is helping to bring sophisticated version control within the grasps of non-technical workers with the latest release of TurnOverSVN, the iSeries-based version of a popular open-source change management system that it introduced earlier this year. iSeries shops implementing TurnOverSVN version 1.2 will find a new auto versioning feature that can be used on desktop PCs, as well as a new file-locking feature that will save Java, Web, and PC developers time and frustration.

SoftLanding enthusiastically embraced the open-source development model when it introduced TurnOverSVN and Subversion for OS/400–two OS/400 implementations of the open source Subversion source control system,

RPG programmers looking for an alternative to working directly with IBM‘s OS/400 APIs may want to consider Bob Cozzi’s RPG xTools, a collection of more than 200 pre-written RPG IV utilities and subprocedures that that provide wrappers for OS/400 APIs. Earlier this month, Cozzi issued the version 5.0 release of his xTools, which adds more than a dozen new functions, including enhanced encryption/decryption, CGI development, and IFS file management. Cozzi has also partnered with Linoma Software to market, sell, and support the xTools.

Bob Cozzi is renowned in the OS/400 community for his expertise in RPG, which has made