Postcards from COMMON

Ok, it is not a postcard. However, I thought you might like to see a couple of snapshots from COMMON. LANSA seems to be generating a lot of buzz around RAMP. How many people from LANSA can you identify? If you are one of the early adopters…let the rest of us know. Enjoy the photos. Thom

I thought I would share a quick update from COMMON regarding RAMP. It looks like LANSA might have another great success with this product based on response I have observed in their booth. If you haven't had a chance, go to their web site and you can actually walk through the process of using RAMP. It just might be the best thing you have done in a long time. I will try and take some picture and post them when I return. Back to the booth duty! Thom

LANSA Programmers/Consultants

LANSA Developers
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WebSphere Portlet Generator for LANSA

LANSA Based Portlet Generator for WebSphere
We are presenting our new Portlet Generator for WebSphere at Common this week. Creating custom portlets has traditionally been difficult and required skilled J2EE developers capable of connecting to various data sources, business processes and existing systems. The e.ssential Portlet Generator and LANSA dramatically accelerate and simplify the entire process. Below is a sample WebSphere Portal screen with our LANSA Portlet Generator Portlets Embedded. Learn more, click here.

IBM iSeries Common

Rippe & Kingston is at the LANSA booth during the COMMON Conference being held this week at Minneapolis Convention Center. COMMON is the world's largest community of IBM iSeries (AS/400) users. We will be showing some of our work with LANSA's new product called RAMP and our LANSA Portlet- Generator.

We attended the press announcement of LANSA RAMP on Sunday March 26. Mr. Thom Davidson presented our experience as an ISV. So far we have seen many productivity gains including 5250 to graphical screen consolitation from 10 to 1 in some cases. See additional information at www.rippe.com

Service-Oriented Architecture

We are looking for someone that has taken on the challenge of migrating to a service-oriented architecture. I personally suffer from both excitement and fear of this new paradigm. It appears that this can solve our integration conundrum. I would love to chat with anyone that has applied SOA to their package. LANSA gives us the tools. I just don't want to cut off my fingers.

Renew your iSeries Applications

LANSA will be introducing a new product at common according to IT Jungle. This product will introduce an entirely different approach to application modernization and innovation. Visit them along with Rippe and Kingston Systems at Common on March 26th. If you want to register for information now on this new product, LANSA has provided a web site for on-line registration. We look forward to seeing you at Common.