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Morpheus takes
Rational message to the masses
By Seamus Quinn
Morpheus
e-Business Solutions is on a mission to take IBM's Rational message
to the UK's i users.
The Bracknell, Berkshire-based web specialist is holding a series of
workshops on application development with Rational Developer for System
i (RDi), Rational Business Developer for SOA Construction, Host Access
Transformation Server (HATS) and the all-important Enterprise Generation
Language (EGL).
In February, IBM called time on both WebSphere Development Studio
Client (WDSC) and its Advanced equivalent and replaced them with the
Rational-branded products. It also broke up WebSphere Development Studio
into three separate components. As if that wasn't enough, Big Blue
changed the licensing model for its i developer products. Such details
are worth watching out for, according to Morpheus's Bleddyn Williams.
"Now, depending on the machine that you’ve got, you’re allowed to
have a number of developers on that machine, which is a big change," he
points out. "So those people who went out and bought a P10 machine for
doing their development are now limited to the number of developers that
they can have on there."
Licensing issues aside, long-time i-oriented web wizard Williams is
enthusiastic about the new Rational toolset.
"I think if you can get past how you get the upgrade and get the
licenses you need, you should definitely be moving to this as your
development environment," he says. "It’s much easier to identify
straight away what you want to be doing and I think anyone who’s from
an RPG background would get to grips with this pretty quickly."
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Notes from the
IBM/Microsoft battleground
By Seamus Quinn
No doubt irked by Microsoft's boasts about
Notes-to-Exchange conversion last month, Big Blue has fired a salvo of
facts and figures that it says point to a resurgence in its Notes/Domino
business in the world's emerging markets.
IBM issued its retort after Kevin Turner, Microsoft COO, told
financial analysts that his firm had sold 4.86 million SharePoint,
Exchange and Office seats into Lotus Notes accounts in the last year.
Over the next year it planned to win five million.
Although it was noticeably light on such stark numbers, IBM's
statement said: "Led by strong sales of IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8 in
the second quarter of 2008, IBM's Lotus software business outgrew
Microsoft by winning millions of customer seats worldwide in direct
competition with Microsoft, aided by key wins over its Redmond-based
rival in emerging markets."
It cited Lotus' largest Asian customer to date as "a major bank
licensing 300,000 Lotus Notes seats as well as Lotus Symphony, IBM's
free personal productivity software based on the OpenDocument Format".
Unfortunately, it would seem that Asian bankers are as light-lipped as
their Western counterparts about their IT infrastructures and IBM's
press office were unable to actually name the customer.
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WebSmart PHP
gets smarter
By Seamus Quinn
Business
Computer Design has enhanced the WebSmart PHP web application
development tool that it first released twelve months ago. UK
distributor is SoftLanding
Europe.
A new wizard in version 2.0 of the solution eliminates the need to
code the many lines of PHP required to call existing RPG programs. The
wizard guides developers by prompting them for the program name, library
and parameters and generates the PHP code.
Through its WebSmart PHP support desk, BCD says that it discovered
that developers frequently create custom templates to match the
appearance and functionality of other programs in the enterprise. In
response to this, version 2.0 lets users create custom program template
families with a new feature that allows them to copy elements from
existing program templates.
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Web portal is
gateway to Enhanced Technical Support
By Seamus Quinn
On September 3, IBM will launch Enhanced Technical
Support -- gateway for Power Systems and System i users with Software
Maintenance, Support Line or Hardware Maintenance contracts on the UK
mainland.
The improved service includes a personalised portal that will provide
proactive online or email notification regarding a system's maintenance,
security and performance. IBM says that the portal can provide graphs
and detailed information on server performance and forecast performance
bottlenecks before they happen. It can also provide reports that compare
the fixes installed to a server with the available HIPER, PE and
cumulative levels and also web views and reports with detailed
configuration data information.
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