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Analysts, Users, and ISVs React to the System i5
February 20, 2006 Mary Lou Roberts
IBM‘s System i5 announcements on January 31 have neither shattered expectations nor set the IT industry in a tailspin. The specifics of the announcement are not cause for either alarm or for great celebration. They do, however, represent steady progress in what platform believers have come to expect in a continuing evolution as IBM attempts to hold onto its large installed base and capture new customers at the same time.
But, as always, reactions to Big Blue’s announcements are varied. To gauge the reaction of the OS/400 community, I contacted several analysts, end users, and ISVs to get their
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Analysts, Users, and ISVs React to the System i5
February 20, 2006 Mary Lou Roberts
IBM‘s System i5 announcements on January 31 have neither shattered expectations nor set the IT industry in a tailspin. The specifics of the announcement are not cause for either alarm or for great celebration. They do, however, represent steady progress in what platform believers have come to expect in a continuing evolution as IBM attempts to hold onto its large installed base and capture new customers at the same time.
But, as always, reactions to Big Blue’s announcements are varied. To gauge the reaction of the OS/400 community, I contacted several analysts, end users, and ISVs to get their
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Analysts, Users, and ISVs React to the System i5
February 20, 2006 Mary Lou Roberts
IBM‘s System i5 announcements on January 31 have neither shattered expectations nor set the IT industry in a tailspin. The specifics of the announcement are not cause for either alarm or for great celebration. They do, however, represent steady progress in what platform believers have come to expect in a continuing evolution as IBM attempts to hold onto its large installed base and capture new customers at the same time.
But, as always, reactions to Big Blue’s announcements are varied. To gauge the reaction of the OS/400 community, I contacted several analysts, end users, and ISVs to get their
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Mainsoft, IBM to Convert .NET Code to Java on All eServers
January 16, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan
Turnabout is fair play, and it is refreshing to see that IBM is beginning to understand that it needs a strategy to try to bring the 100,000 partners who write code for Microsoft‘s Windows platform onto all of its eServer platforms–not just xSeries and BladeCenter servers that run Windows natively on Intel and AMD processors. For a decade, software vendors have been porting their OS/400, AIX, and MVS applications to Windows, or creating whole new application suites that compete against software developed for those platforms.
Now, IBM wants to turn the tables on the Windows ecosystem, and it is
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Mainsoft, IBM to Convert .NET Code to Java on All eServers
January 16, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan
Turnabout is fair play, and it is refreshing to see that IBM is beginning to understand that it needs a strategy to try to bring the 100,000 partners who write code for Microsoft‘s Windows platform onto all of its eServer platforms–not just xSeries and BladeCenter servers that run Windows natively on Intel and AMD processors. For a decade, software vendors have been porting their OS/400, AIX, and MVS applications to Windows, or creating whole new application suites that compete against software developed for those platforms.
Now, IBM wants to turn the tables on the Windows ecosystem, and it is
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Mainsoft, IBM to Convert .NET Code to Java on All eServers
January 16, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan
Turnabout is fair play, and it is refreshing to see that IBM is beginning to understand that it needs a strategy to try to bring the 100,000 partners who write code for Microsoft‘s Windows platform onto all of its eServer platforms–not just xSeries and BladeCenter servers that run Windows natively on Intel and AMD processors. For a decade, software vendors have been porting their OS/400, AIX, and MVS applications to Windows, or creating whole new application suites that compete against software developed for those platforms.
Now, IBM wants to turn the tables on the Windows ecosystem, and it is
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BCD Announces RPG Code Converter, Outlines Web App Enhancements
October 26, 2004 Alex Woodie
When BCD Int’l starts shipping ProGen WebSmart Version 5 next year, it will include a new RPG code converter designed to jumpstart iSeries shops’ Web development projects using the WebSmart development environment. The code converter in WebSmart 5 is just one of the announcements BCD made at the COMMON conference last week, including an upcoming release of its Spool-Explorer/400 product and new features in its Nexus Web portal.
If one were to draw a triangle with WebSmart, Nexus, and the combination of Catapult and Spool-Explorer/400 at each point, the center of that triangle would represent the thrust of BCD’s development
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Open Source Insurance May Call All Code into Question
March 29, 2004 Timothy Prickett Morgan
The hardest thing for proponents of the open source programming model to fathom is that the lawsuits between The SCO Group and IBM are only the beginning. Any company with a vested interest in supporting the proprietary software licensing model, which, arguably, has defined the software industry for decades, is going to attack open source on patent, copyright, and intellectual property grounds. Open Source Risk Management wants to prepare customers for this eventuality and to cushion the economic and legal blows that open source users might face in coming years.
Vendors have been unwilling to offer wholesale indemnification to open
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Soft-Coded Report Distribution
February 11, 2004 Bruce Guetzkow
[The code for this article is available for download.]
Printer files let programmers separate one type of output from program processing. When a printer file is created, several attributes can be specified (like output queue, copies) to simplify report routing instructions. But over time things change. You may, for instance, need to send reports to a different output queue or change the number of copies. The typical response is to update the affected printer files, provided you have the authority. This article presents an alternative: soft-coded report distribution.
Soft-coded report distribution lets you change printer file attributes
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Soft-Coded Report Distribution
February 11, 2004 Bruce Guetzkow
[The code for this article is available for download.]
Printer files let programmers separate one type of output from program processing. When a printer file is created, several attributes can be specified (like output queue, copies) to simplify report routing instructions. But over time things change. You may, for instance, need to send reports to a different output queue or change the number of copies. The typical response is to update the affected printer files, provided you have the authority. This article presents an alternative: soft-coded report distribution.
Soft-coded report distribution lets you change printer file attributes