<P>Prophet 21 Inc. (Yardley, Pa.) has announced plans to port its Prophet 21 Wholesale solution, previously known as Servent, to the AS/400 this spring.
<P>Despite a decline in AS/400 revenues for the first time all year, IBM recorded record fourth-quarter 1998 diluted earnings per common share of $2.47 on revenues of $25.1 billion and net income of $2.3 billion.
<P>No more red or blue boxes, more Model 170s and the Northstar chip across the entire product line are some of the changes in store for the AS/400 in advance of May's planned V4R4 release of OS/400.
<P>V4R4 of OS/400, available May 21, will bring enhancements to the AS/400's DB2/400 database that will bring it into parity with IBM's industry-leading DB2 Universal Database [UDB]. Reflecting this new parity, the AS/400 database will officially be known as DB2 Universal Database for AS/400 as of the May 21 OS release.
<P>British company ValiDate/400 LLC has launched Validate/400, a new tool designed to be the "final filter" for Year 2000-related data errors.
<P>IBM has completed the acquisition of ERP services company, the Management and Application Support (MAS) Group.
<P>Michaels, Ross & Cole has enhanced its mrc-Productivity Series 97 thin-client rapid application development tool to support automatic generation of server-side Java applications.
<P>Microsoft has begun its defense in the government's antitrust trial against it with written testimony from Massachusetts Institute of Technology economics professor Richard Schmalansee.
<P>The Year 2000 bug shouldn't affect the North American power grid, according to a report released by the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC).