• LANSA Partners with IONA Technologies for SOA Enablement on System i

  November 6, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  LANSA, a tool vendor with expertise in rapid application development and i5/OS and OS/400 legacy application modernization, and IONA Technologies, which has positioned itself in the center of the services oriented architecture (SOA) arena with its Artix implementation of the Enterprise Service Bus idea, last week announced that they have partnered to help make SOA-style application modernization easier for System i shops that are coping with distributed application architectures. IONA is based in Dublin, Ireland, and has been focusing on object-oriented programming and then Web services for the past decade. The company’s Orbix product implements the CORBA object

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• Jack Henry Sees 10 Percent Revenue and Profit Growth in Fiscal Q1

  November 6, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  It is always a good thing to see independent software vendors that push the System i platform doing well. And in its most recent quarter Jack Henry & Associates, which specializes in selling software to financial institutions such as community banks and credit unions, said that sales were up 10 percent. Jack Henry ended its first quarter of fiscal 2007 on September 30, and reported sales of $150.6 million, up 10 percent from the $137 million it booked in the prior year’s first quarter. Software license sales were actually down in the quarter, however, falling 8 percent to $15.5

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• TMW Systems Has a Great Third Quarter, Thanks to Maddocks Acquisition

  November 6, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Trucking software supplier and long-time i5/OS and OS/400 platform promoter TMW Systems had its first quarter of sales with the combined operations of TMW Systems and Maddocks Systems, the competitor it acquired in early September. According to the company, which is privately held (more on that in a second), the new-and-improved TMW Systems posted sales of $11.3 million in the quarter, an increase of 27 percent for the combined operations a year ago. Driving sales during the quarter were 34 deals for software licenses to the TMWSuite and TruckMate suites to new customers. “While our financial reports are interesting, our

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• PeopleSoft Founder Duffield Launches Workday ERP Today

  November 6, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Revenge is a dish that is best served cold, and Dave Duffield, the founder of the formerly independent software company PeopleSoft, which was acquired in January 2005 in a hostile takeover by Oracle, has not forgotten how Larry Ellison beat him. Since May 2005, he has been working on a follow-on company and ERP software suite, and today the company, Workday, and its products, Workday Enterprise Business Services, will come to market. The Workday suite was created using Web technologies and will apparently be sold as a service rather than as a licensed product that companies install on

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• The X Factor: Form Follows Function

  November 6, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  In nature, the shape of an animal or a plant is the result of the interplay between the organism and its environment–the latter being the sum result of the forces at play, the competitive pressures between competing life forms, and the materials at hand with which to build and sustain the life form. In the data center, similar competitive pressures are at work on computer designs, and instead of working at periodic timescales, evolution happens over a human generation or less. But sometimes evolution is stalled by greed. While there has been plenty of evolution under the skins of servers

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• PowerTech Issues Third Annual State of i5/OS Security Report

  November 6, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The security of any system is only as good as the methods companies use to implement access to applications, data, and operating system resources. Anyone with a PC on his or her desktop knows this intuitively these days, with the maelstrom of malware and viruses that are attacking us. But, according to the third annual state of security on the i5/OS and OS/400 platform put out by security software maker The PowerTech Group, some System i shops are not being diligent about the security of their systems. Part of the problem that i5/OS and OS/400 shops are facing is

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• Bang for the Buck: User-Capped i5 520s Versus Windows X64 Servers

  November 6, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Nearly a month ago, IBM made a big deal about its new i5 520 Solution Edition for SAP applications, which offered dramatically better bang for the buck than regular i5 520s, and quietly announced what I am calling the user-capped i5 520 Solution Editions. Big Blue emphasized the wrong products in its announcements and public relations campaign. While an SAP box is interesting for a small number of customers, the entry user-capped i5 520 box does something more interesting: it actually competes head-to-head, and user-for-user, with Windows-based X64 servers. No kidding. Well, at least not on the initial 20-user

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