• XAware Boasts More Than 150,000 Downloads

  August 19, 2008 Alex Woodie

  More than 150,000 developers and designers have registered to download the latest release of XAware‘s graphical open source data integration software, the company recently announced. Along with the user update, XAware unveiled version 5.1 of its software, which delivers XML and DB2 enhancements, among other features. XAware has been riding the open source software wave since it started allowing anybody to license its software for free under the GPL in November 2007. Since then, the company has been creating a niche for itself at SourceForge, the popular repository for open source development projects, and an online community

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• Real Time Forensics from Log Data? ArcSight Says It’s Got It

  August 19, 2008 Alex Woodie

  With the onslaught of identity theft and the increase in instances of corporate data loss these days, forensics is becoming a word more IT administrators are becoming familiar with. In the world of log management solutions, however, most vendors make users choose between speedy log collection and the capability to forensically mine for important system events. With the addition of “forensics on the fly” to its Security Information Event Management (SEIM) system, ArcSight claims users can now do both without compromise. ArcSight sells several inter-connected products that make up its SIEM platform. It sells an Enterprise Security Management (ESM) product

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• ISC Taps LANSA for App Modernization

  August 19, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Investment Systems Company (ISC) will modernize its i OS-based suite of portfolio management applications using LANSA‘s RAMP (Rapid Application Modernization Process) solution set, the companies announced yesterday. ISC is a Moreland Hills, Ohio, software company that has been providing the investment community with i OS-based portfolio management applications since it was founded in 1984. The company offers three main products–including Portfolio Accounting System, Shareholder Accounting System, and Bonds Payable System–to a range of organizations, including banks, mutual fund companies, professional investment houses, asset managers, and housing authorities. To remain competitive, ISC needed to revamp the interfaces of its offerings.

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• Workplace Service Firm Licenses Lawson’s i OS-based ERP

  August 19, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Lawson Software announced that PHS Group, one of England’s largest workplace service providers, recently licensed M3, its Java-based ERP suite most commonly deployed on i OS. PHS will install M3 on an i-based Power Systems server and utilize it as the new backbone of the company. PHS Group is a diverse company with a diverse set of services. Its 30 business units across five divisions offers services ranging from cleaning bathrooms and collecting waste and recycling to storing documents and providing personal protective equipment. A growth surge in the last five years that has increased PHS’s revenues by an average

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• PowerTech Acquired by Help/Systems, Private Equity Firm

  August 18, 2008 Alex Woodie

  The consolidation of the midrange continued last month when The PowerTech Group, a leading developer of i OS security software, was acquired by Help/Systems and Audax Group, the private equity group backing the i OS utility developer. Few details of the deal are being released, as the companies are privately held and therefore under no obligation to spill the nitty gritty. What is known is that PowerTech will continue to function as a completely independent entity. By all indications, PowerTech has become a powerhouse of i OS security software this decade. Whereas many of its competitors had been

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• JDA Ponies Up $346 Million to Buy i2 Technologies

  August 18, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  If there is any rule in the latter stages of development in any market, it is that the big get bigger. So it has been in the market for application software for businesses of all sizes, and last week JDA Software continued to exert its gravity in the software space by acquiring sometime-rival supply chain software specialist i2 Technologies for a net cost of about $346 million. The move not only makes JDA that much more of a player in supply chain software–and for many companies, positions JDA up above SAP and Oracle–but also puts to rest years of

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• SMBs Are Sensibly More Concerned with Biz than Tech

  August 18, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  This bit of news will come as no surprise to any IT Jungle readers who have run their own businesses or who work for small companies where money is a lot tighter than at larger enterprises, which always seem to have a lot more dough to spare for IT projects that may or may not pan out. According to research performed recently by IDC, SMB shops, which have IT budgets that are growing at least twice as fast as spending among larger companies, are more worried about the state of the economy than all the latest gadgetry or hot

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• As I See It: Lessons from Robben Island

  August 18, 2008 Victor Rozek

  Richard Stengel describes him as “the closest thing the world has to a secular saint.” And Stengel is in a good position to know. For two years, the managing editor of Time collaborated with Nelson Mandela on his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. How better to describe a man who endured 27 years of hellish captivity, emerged unembittered, and rejected vengeance in favor of creating a more perfect union. Stengel recently wrote an article in which he shares his reflections on Mandela’s leadership qualities honed over nine decades of tumultuous and heroic living. Not all are equally relevant to

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• Big Blue Launches XIV Clustered Storage Arrays

  August 18, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The product might still be bearing the cryptic XIV name its founder, Moshe Yanai, gave the storage company he founded after leaving EMC, but now the XIV Storage System also has the IBM 2810 Model A14 designation, and this new type of clustered storage system is available in the Big Blue catalog. IBM acquired XIV, which is based in Israel and which was still operating in stealth mode as it was preparing to launch its products, on January 2 of this year. Yanai, who is the engineering genius behind EMC’s wildly successful Symmetrix line of disk arrays, left EMC

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• Reader Feedback on Database Modernization Still Unknown Territory

  August 18, 2008 Hey, Ted

  I seem to have missed something on the DDS versus DDL topic, which Dan Burger wrote about in Database Modernization Still Unknown Territory. Explain why and how DDL is faster if they both run on the same box. The speed of the disk drives is the same. If there is some “super algorithm” for DDL, why can’t it be applied to DDS? Is there some design feature of DDS that just makes it slow compared to DDL, or is DDL really just something new just because IBM thought it was time for a change, kinda like the i versus

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