March 1996

• In This Issue -
• Industry Report: Communications - Pam Jones surveys 1995 and early 1996 communications developments in the AS/400 market. Among these: better LAN integration, 32-bit clients, improved TCP/IP support, and expanding Internet options.
• Product Review: Rumba Data Access - Roger Pence reviews Wall Data's Rumba Data Access ODBC driver. It features high-performance record-level access, an extended call syntax that lets the driver retrieve data through SQL packages, and the ability to submit remote AS/400 commands.
• Product Review: StarSQL 1.05 - Michael Otey reviews StarWare's StarSQL, which uses DRDA to let the ODBC driver work with earlier versions of OS/400. StarSQL also runs over a variety of routers, ranks as one of the faster AS/400 ODBC drivers, and has an attractive price tag.
• Product Review: Native Plus, BOSaNova Plus, WinTwin, and WinTwin/APPC - Chuck Lundgren reviews 5250 adapter cards from Better On-Line Solutions and Synapse Network Associates. These cards eliminate the need for PC interrupts and memory segments.
• Hot New WAN Technologies - Client/server applications demand more bandwidth than traditional WANs can deliver. Mel Beckman looks into three new WAN technologies -- Frame Relay Service (FRS), Switched Multimegabit Data Service (SMDS), and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) -- that can deliver that bandwidth boost. Find out how you can use these technologies to breathe new life into your existing WAN or roll out a brand new one.
• New Products & Services -
• Is It Just Me..... Memories Are Made of This -