Saturday, January 31, 2009

Mark Mason submits LANSA for Reader's Choice Award

Below is the partial story regarding Mark Mason's submission to SystemiNetwork on January 27, 2009

Reader's Choice: LANSA

This week's nominee for reader's choice comes from Mark Mason of BuilderSolutions, Inc. Mark is such a fan of LANSA, in fact, he is a consultant that does nothing but LANSA work. He even created www.lansaclub.com. BuilderSolutions offers programming services, full service recruiting, and technical support for the IBM i, so Mark is intricately familiar with the integration of LANSA's products into our beloved system. See complete posting.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Open-Source Cloud Tools Project Spawn Cloud Foundry

For those of you addicted to everything GOOGLE, you might have seen the open-source Cloud Tools project, hosted on Google Code. It is a prime example of the emerging trend of open-source developers targeting the cloud and looking at services such as Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine to host their applications.

LANSA is starting to pursue Cloud Computing more aggressively. Their upcoming webinars regarding LANSA Mashups is a good example of leveraging this approach to systems. By the way...a little toot your own horn here...John Reuter from Rippe & Kingston presented LANSA Mashups at the last LANSA Conference. Way to go John...ahead of the curve as usual. John incorporated our e.ssential Portal and Contract Guardian (LANSA WAMS) as part of the mashup.