Mainframe DB2

Bus-Tech Speeds up Mainframe DB2 Access

by M. Reed ... Speeds up Mainframe DB2 Access M. Reed - January 23rd, 2000 Event Summary. "Burlington, MA, December 10, 1999 - Bus-Tech, a leading ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2000/01/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_01_23_00_1.asp - 6k - 2000-01-23 Summary: Bus-Tech has announced the EnterpriseExpress Adapter for DB2 Access. The product is a PCI-compliant ESCON adapter using IBM's Multipath Channel+ (MPC+) protocol to provide the highest possible throughput between Windows NT applications and DB2 Universal Database for OS/390 using IBM's DB2 Connect.

ERP Vendor Lawson Software Extends to IBM's DB2 Universal Database

by M. Reed ... Customers gain the widest possible choice of hardware platforms when using IBM DB2 with Lawson solutions, and can leverage their existing mainframe or client ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2000/01/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_01_10_00_1.asp - 6k - 2000-01-10 Summary: Lawson Software, a major privately held provider of enterprise resource planning software, today announced the delivery of its enterprise software applications for IBM's DB2 Universal Database. This availability extends Lawson's support of the IBM DB2 Universal Database to encompass IBM Netfinity, RS/600

GMAC Web-Enables Legacy Data With NEON Systems Shadow Direct

by M. Reed ... driver. The NEON Client driver accesses the System/390 mainframe, where Shadow Direct provides access to DB2 and ADABAS data. Existing ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2001/03/research_notes/CS_DW_MFR_03_05_01_1.asp - 17k - 2001-03-05 Summary: GMAC is pushing for enterprise-wide web enablement of existing IT assets to support customer self-service platforms. NEON Systems’ Shadow Direct product gives them access to legacy ADABAS databases in a real-time Internet environment.

The Market Rewards Ardent Software Initiatives

by M. Reed ... in accessing mainframe legacy data. The solution provided by the Prism acquisition is host-based, while NEON's Shadow Direct is a gateway which optimizes DB2 ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/1999/10/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_10_19_99_1.asp - 6k - 1999-10-19 Summary: Over the last year, Ardent Software (NASDAQ: ARDT) has announced a number of initiatives to strengthen their DataStage data warehousing product, most recently a partnership with NEON Systems (NASDAQ: NESY), a provider of OS/390-MVS mainframe access through their NEON Shadow Direct middleware. On October

Outsourcing Service/Outsource Services Evaluation

... with a customer Health care (such as hospitals and HMOs) Hong Kong Host intrusion detection Hungary IBM IBM (RAID 5) IBM DB2 IBM MQ Series IBM Mainframe IBM S ... http://outsourcing.technologyevaluation.com/it-infrastructure/ - 29k - 2009-04-15

IBM Buys What’s Left of Informix

by M. Reed ... Windows NT, complementing their traditionally strong presence in the mainframe and AS ... offerings, and will attempt instead to sell IBM's own DB2 product, which ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2001/05/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_05_02_01_1.asp - 12k - 2001-05-02 Summary: In another sign of consolidation within the database vendor market, IBM has announced that they are acquiring the assets of Informix Software (the database portion of Informix Corporation, which remained after the spin-off of Informix Business Solutions into Ascential Software). IBM intends to use the a

PeopleSoft: Giving Fervent Hope To The Market And Jitters To The ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... While IBM DB2 is the primary development platform for PeopleSoft 8, it will also support Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases on IBM mainframe, UNIX and ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/2001/06/research_notes/EN_BA_PJ_06_26_01_1.asp - 15k - 2001-06-26 Summary: PeopleSoft is seeking to make bigger strides in the CRM, SCM and B2B software markets with its recent spate of product releases. While Wall Street praises the vendor’s new product initiatives and its strong first quarter results and optimism for the future, its direct competitors are far from feeling

SSA GT to EXE-cute (Yet) Another Acquisition Part Two: EXE

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... IBM/AIX, Sun Solaris, and HP-UX OS platforms and on Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and IBM DB2 database platforms; and; EXceed WMS for Mainframe Environments (a.ka ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2003/09/news_analysis/NA_SC_PJ_09_27_03_1.asp - 27k - 2003-09-27 Summary: Like the previous few SSA GT acquisitions, this merger too seems aimed at enlarging SSA GT's customer base, market share, and more importantly, its predictably recurring support revenue and consequently larger R&D pool. Both companies have notable customer bases with a wide geographic spread (particularl

Now Just Where Did I Put My Search Engine?

by Daniel Oldis ... These include an online transaction processing (OLTP) mainframe database 2 (DB2) to support transactions, and an e-commerce universal database (UDB) database ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessIntelligence/2006/05/research_notes/MI_BI_XDO_05_24_06_1.asp - 16k - 2006-05-24 Summary: Barraged with terms like 'structured and unstructured data,' 'enterprise search,' 'federated query,' and 'business intelligence and analytics,' corporate decision makers are awash in ambiguous and overlapping meanings. Making the distinction between metadata and data may reduce the confusion.

What’s New in Microsoft SQL Server 2000

by M. Reed ... Edition of the product, specifically to compete with IBM's DB2 Universal Database ... on less expensive x86 hardware (compared to the price of a mainframe or high ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2000/06/research_notes/PN_DW_MFR_06_21_00_1.asp - 21k - 2000-06-21 Summary: SQL Server 2000, the next major release of SQL Server 7, is Microsoft’s SQL 7 release of its database both re-architected and re-written. Microsoft has high hopes for the latest version in a market that was worth $8 Billion in 1999, an 18% increase over 1998. What remains to be seen is whether it will