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Issue 2073
July 01, 2009
From the Editor

NEWS on i is taking a break from publication Thursday in honor of Independence Day in the U.S. We'll see you Monday. Have a happy holiday!


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Maxed Out: Bartell Trains, Hopes to Shave Eyebrows
By Chris Maxcer

I try to ignore fundraising events when it comes to publishing--I tend to shy away from abusing my position as an editor by promoting miscellaneous causes and sorting out which are "worthy" of publication--but there's a youngster in our IBM i community who gives a lot back to the IBM i world (like code, educational sessions, his blog, etc) so I'm bending my own rules: Aaron Bartell of Mow Your Lawn fame might shave his eyebrows. *Read more...

Industry Bits: Pair of Third Parties Validates IBM's App Dev Strategy
By Chris Maxcer

IBM is reporting that analyst firm Gartner has ranked IBM as the worldwide leader in the application development software space, while Evans Data Corp. found that app dev users were most pleased with IBM in its "Users' Choice: 2009 Software Development Platform" survey.*Read more...


Out of Context
U.S. Offers Online Tool to Track $70 Billion in IT Purchases

"This certainly makes the information more open and available. . . .As with any government data, it's not for everybody, but for a select subset of the curious."
--Shawn P. McCarthy, an analyst at IDC, as quoted by NYTimes.com


Product News: Bytware Antivirus Product Supports Lotus Domino 8.5

Bytware announces that its StandGuard Anti-Virus solution for IBM i supports Lotus Domino 8.5. The virus detection and cleaning solution, powered by McAfee, provides protection for IBM Power Systems servers. StandGuard Anti-Virus offers native scanning to detect viruses and malicious code that can use Power Systems servers as a safe haven to infect other systems. Domino support is an optional add-on to the base StandGuard Anti-Virus solution for IBM i. Lotus Domino 8.5 was released by IBM in May, and StandGuard Anti-Virus is completely compatible with the new Domino version. Support for Domino includes:

  • Mail scanning
  • Database scanning
  • Quarantine
  • Realtime alerts
  • Automatic virus definition updating
  • Scheduling of automatic database scanning and updating
  • Logging
  • Remote management

Bytware also offers Lotus Domino support in Japanese with its Tokyo-based partner Solpac. For more information about StandGuard Anti-Virus 6.0 support for Domino 8.5, or to request a free trial, contact Heather Richards, Bytware technical consultant, at 775-851-2900, or visit bytware.com/products/av/.


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