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May 2007 -
i5 Route Finder - Shortcuts to Browser Interfaces
Free your legacy applications from green screens with Strategi SOA.

May 2007 -
ABL Offers Native SOA-Builder for System i
ADVANCED Businesslink unveils Strategi SOA, a development tool for building SOA architectures on the System i.

November 2006 -
ADVANCED BusinessLink Launches Wireless Emulation Solution
ADVANCED BusinessLink releases Strategi mobileACCESS, an emulation solution optimized for large-scale 5250 applications.


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September 2004 -
MACAO — THE NEXT LAS VEGAS? [PDF]
ADVANCED Businesslink used their middleware to provide a Chinese language interface to the Bally ACSC system at the Sands Macao.

January 2004 -
iSERIES APPLICATION MODERNIZATION: the Tasks, the Tools, the Trade-Offs [PDF]
Hospitality and Gaming at a Crossroads: Should companies scrap or bridge legacy systems to achieve modernization?


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September 2006 -
ADVANCED BusinessLink Launches Wireless Emulation Solution for Small Mobile Devices
Even if your legacy applications are working just fine, modernization could eliminate future headaches.

March 2005 -
Hitting it Big
Atlantic City's Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa creates an IT environment that's nearly as elegant as the property itself.


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May 2007 -
ABL Unveils Strategi SOA
ADVANCED BusinessLink officially launches a new product called Strategi SOA last week at the COMMON conference in Anaheim, California.

March 2007 -
SOA, What's The Big Deal?
This article discusses the IT industry's infatuation with SOA and the need for education and clarity on what SOA is and isn't.

November 2006 -
ABL Re-emerges to Launch OS/400 Emulator for Smart Phones
Last week ADVANCED BusinessLink broke its long silence to introduce a new product designed to provide users with access to OS/400 applications from smart phones, PDAs, and sub-compact notebooks.


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May 2007 -
MC Press Reviews Strategi SOA
Strategi SOA brings RPG and other System i languages into the service-oriented world, lifting the "legacy" label off their shoulders
Case Study: ADVANCED BusinessLink's Strategi webSTYLE
ADVANCED BusinessLink's Strategi webSTYLE helps Getty Petroleum Marketing (Getty) to modernize and derive additional value from its legacy applications.
How SOA Can Help You Transition to a Browser-Based Interface
The dumb terminal is dead, fat clients are passé, and you're moving your organization toward browser-based thin clients. Could you be biting off more than you can chew?

MC Press Reviews Strategi SOA
Strategi mobileACCESS easily turns most mobile devices into practical 5250 application clients.

ADVANCED BusinessLink Announces Native System i SOA Middleware
Easily extend and evolve legacy applications using a pure service-oriented architecture.

November 2006 -
Transform Laptops and PDAs into Wireless System i Clients
ADVANCED BusinessLink launches unique wireless emulation solution for small mobile devices.
July 2006 -
If it Ain’t Broke You Might Want to Fix It
Even if your legacy applications are working just fine, modernization could eliminate future headaches.


   


   
February 28, 2000  -
Wireless initiatives now inching closer to e-business viability for U.S. companies
By Maggie Biggs
ADVANCED BusinessLink enables WAP (Wireless Application Protocol)-enabled devices to interact in real time with AS/400 business applications using WML (Wireless Markup Language).


October 1996  - p. 6
Vendors to unveil AS/400 support
By Tim Ouellette
At the COMMON midrange users conference in Atlanta this week, vendors will introduce software that makes it easier to access IBM AS/400 data from several platforms and applications.




   
May, 2002  -
Southern Wine's Sales Staff Imbibes Wireless System
By Sarah Z. Sleeper
Southern Wine and Spirits, the nation's largest liquor distributor, sees real results with the implementation of a wireless system using software from ADVANCED BusinessLink.


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April 2003  -
A Technology Transfusion - The Puget Sound Blood Center begins offering hospitals secure online access to its patient database
We might complain about HMOs, PPOs and the steadily increasing cost of doctor's office co-pays, but imagine a world without the modern medicine they allow. We might as well be living in medieval times, with largely ignorant physicians bleeding us when we have fevers and placing leeches over the location of a broken bone-hardly the same as MRIs, EKGs and EEGs.

July 2002  -
Iceland Has a Warm Spot for iSeries
The Icelandic iSeries and AS/400 Club boasts between 50 and 70 active members that, according to Bjorn Hilmarsson, user group chairman, are employed by companies that own roughly 300 iSeries and AS/400 machine nationwide.

December 2000  -
E-Business Challenge: Get Up And Running in 90 Days
Here's the rub: Your boss- no, even better, the president of your company- tells the world you're going to be e-commerce capable in 90 days. "Damn the torpedoes," he says, "full speed ahead!" Unfortunately, he forgot to tell you- the head of IT development- about it. Ten days later, the financial world still shaking from this tremor-inducing announcement, the news trickles down to you. "Huh? What?" you ask, already thinking, "I've lost more than a week. I've only got 80 days left."

October 31, 2000  -
ADVANCED BusinessLink announces the availability of webCluster™
ADVANCED BusinessLink Corp. last week announced the availability of webCluster™, a Web clustering technology that allows iSeries 400 developers to build scalable, distributed Web applications.


   
June, 2003  -
ADVANCED BusinessLink teams up with Blue Chip Engineering
E-enablement specialist, ADVANCED BusinessLink, has teamed up with lone wolf maintenance and disaster recovery specialists, Blue Chip Customer Engineering, to push its Strategi suite of products into the UK.
May, 2003  -
Working in a Wireless World
Wireless holds more promise for the Enterprise than any other technology today, says Frank Booty. But with a proliferation of wireless devices and ways in which they can access host systems, you'll probably need the help of a specialist before you take on the challenge.


   
December 2004  -
Will Pennsylvania Casinos Gamble on the iSeries?
After many years of political maneuvering, this past July Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell signed legislation that will make gaming legal in the Keystone state.


   
August 5, 2002  -
Southern Wine Streamlines with CDPD
By Sue Marek
With the help ADVANCED BusinessLink and the cellular digital packet data network, today Southern Wine is a much more efficient operation with a lot less reliance upon paper for its record keeping.


   
October 29, 2002 -
ABL Announces New pocket Strategi® for Wireless Applications
By Alex Woodie
ADVANCED BusinessLink has announced new software that allows mobile employees to access their wireless applications even if the iSeries Web server it connects to is down, or if they've roamed outside of the cellular network.


   
August, 2002  -
The Strategic Positioning of ADVANCED BusinessLink
By Tony Lock
Bloor Research looks at how a single vendor approach to web enablement allows for both a technical and financially sound migration path from simple modernisation to multi-host and wireless environments.


March 2001  - p. 43
ADVANCED BusinessLink Suits Clothing Retailer's ASP Needs
Interested in moving to a Web development architecture in less than a year? It sounds simple, but one company in the United Kingdom (UK) recently found out otherwise. The Arcadia Group, the second largest retailer of men's and women's clothing in the UK, understood the value of the opportunities offered by the Internet, and the company's vision extended beyond their own internal needs. In fact, Arcadia saw an entirely new business opportunity in operating as an application service provider (ASP), selling the IT expertise and applications they had developed in house over its years in the garment industry.

May 1999  - p. 53
A New Web Application Server Strategi
By Timothy Prickett Morgan
One of the problems with being on the cutting edge of any emerging technology is that vendors with innovative products often get ahead of the buzzwords and marketing terms that will eventually evolve as the technology matures. Such is the case with Strategi from ADVANCED BusinessLink Corporation.

February 1999  - p. 24
ABL Brings Security Offering to Web Browser Users
By Craig Beery
ADVANCED BusinessLink, has enhanced its Strategi e-business solution with a new component called Strategi FileCabinet.

December 1998  - p. 31
ADVANCED BusinessLink Takes AS/400 Communications Technology to the Web
By Veronica Roberts
ADVANCED BusinessLink wants to take its native-AS/400 Strategi browser/server suite and High Speed Messaging initiative to the next level of AS/400 business-to-business communications.

July 1998  - Pg. 37
ADVANCED BusinessLink Pushes Java-based Host Access
By Lucas Roebuck
Ask AS/400 application developers if they feel Java is ready for prime time, and many will tell you that the technology shows promise but still is too fat and too slow.

Ask Kirkland, Washington-based ADVANCED BusinessLink Corporation developers, and they will tell you a different story. The company recently announced that it would be releasing a third version of the company's Java product-a full-featured Java-based host-access client that would run with no middle box.

February 1997  - Front Cover
Get Secure, High-speed Net Transfers with Full Crash Recovery
ADVANCED BusinessLink Corporation is beefing up its line of enterprise communications software for AS/400 shops with the release of BusinessLink/REMOTE-IP, which provides emulation; automated printing; high-speed file transfers; and built-in, three-level security.

December 1996  - p. 31
Java-powered Client Enabled Network-centric Computing
With a new solution from ADVANCED BusinessLink, security problems and limitations of 5250-to-HTML conversions are a thing of the past.

June 1996  - p. 13
Link Up with the World Wide Web to Build Your Business
Attendees at the latest COMMON event in San Francisco had the chance to check out a new AS/400-based Web server, BusinessLink/WEB from ADVANCED Businesslink Corporation.



   

November 2, 2000  - MIDRANGE Systems Headline Report
ADVANCED BUSINESSLINK LAUNCHES APPS FRAMEWORK FOR ISERIES 400
By Fredrik Johnsen
ADVANCED BusinessLink (Kirkland, Wash.), a provider of e-business solutions to help AS/400 users compete in today's electronic marketplace, announced webCluster™, a web clustering technology that allows iSeries 400 developers to build highly scalable, distributed Web applications.

July 17, 2000  - Midrange Systems Breaking News
BusinessLink Integrates Network Systems' Supply Chain Application
By Joanna Doyle
Network Systems International Inc. (Greensboro, N.C.) and ADVANCED BusinessLink (Kirkland, Wash.), announced this week that they have entered an OEM agreement, which will integrate Network Systems supply chain applications with BusinessLinks software products.

December 13, 1999  - MIDRANGE Systems Headline Report
A New WML Strategi from BusinessLink
By Fredrik Johnsen
Capitalizing on the power of Wireless Markup Language (WML) devices, ADVANCED BusinessLink is adding another dimension to AS/400 communication with a new feature in its Strategi middleware that allows for two-way interactive communication between an AS/400 and a user.

June 14, 1999  - midrangesystems.com Breaking News
ADVANCED BusinessLink Amplifies Messaging Architecture
By Larry Greenemeier
In a move to make high speed messaging (HSM) even faster, ADVANCED BusinessLink has released a new version of its HSM architecture, available as a component of the company's Strategi e-business platform.

June 7, 1999  - p. 37
ABL Brings Native Web App Server to AS/400
By Larry Greenemeier
As Java begins to mature in the AS/400 market, the challenge issued to all of this platform's e-business developers becomes finding the best way to make use of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) capabilities introduced with V4R2 of OS/400.

May 24, 1999  - p. 16
Remote Access: The 'Net Generation (excerpt)
By Sam Dickey
Access to an AS/400 host by remote users has been both tricky and expensive. The Internet now offers solutions that look easier and cheaper -- provided the right balance can be struck between ease of use and, above all, security.

May 10, 1999  - p. 15
C/S Middleware: AS/400 Style
By Dan Hubley
In large organizations, providing hundreds or thousands of users access to the AS/400 is a challenge to administer and can potentially reduce performance. A solution can be found in client/server middleware products that act as application servers with the AS/400.

April 12, 1999  - midrangesystems.com Breaking News
FORMation mg and ADVANCED BusinessLink Partner
By Larry Greenemeier
The recent partnership between FORMation mg (Irvine, Calif.) and ADVANCED BusinessLink (Kirkland, Wash.) is a step forward for companies looking to enhance the distribution of electronic forms using the Internet. Through the agreement, users of FORMation mg's flashFORM400 and ABL's Strategi will have the capability to transfer electronic documents across the Internet for viewing or printing.

April 1999  - p. 8
The AS/400 as a Web server? Why Not?
By Sam Dickey
The AS/400 may trail Microsoft NT and Unix as the popular first choice for a Web server platform, but given the direction of the industry some observers believe the game will go the AS/400's way in the end.

December 1998  - p. 1
1998: A New Beginning
By Dennis Callaghan
THE AS/400 REACHED A crossroads in 1998. It celebrated its 10th birthday in June, 10 years of being the most successful multi-user business computing system, while looking ahead to playing an ever-increasing role in the enterprise computing market


October 1998  - p. 3
Did You Hear?
By Larry Greenemeier
The Java applet technology behind ADVANCED BusinessLink's new Strategi native AS/400 e-business enabling technology has arrived.


October 1998  - www.midrangesystems.com
Breaking News: ADVANCED BusinessLink Adds New Piece To Strategi
By Larry Greenemeier
Building upon its Strategi announcement this spring, ADVANCED BusinessLink Corp. (Kirkland, Wash.) will soon deliver a new FileCabinet component for enabling bi-directional, secured access to AS/400 and PC files through the Integrated File System (IFS).


September 1998  - p. 3
Strategi Now Available
By Larry Greenemeier
Java-powered connectivity received a push in the right direction this month when ADVANCED BusinessLink Corp. (Kirkland, Wash.) made available its Strategi emulation, printing and file transfer product.


September 1998  - p. 30
A Changing of the Client and Networking Guard
By Larry Greenemeier
The AS/400 has come a long way from the day IBM called upon it to pick up the torch passed from the System/3X family.


September 1998  - p. 46
Inventing e-business on the AS/400
By Larry Greenemeier
E-business has garnered more than its fair share of attention in the AS/400 market over the past couple of years.


June 15, 1998  - p. 18
AS/400 System Security: Who do you trust?
By Bernard Falkoff
When it comes to built-in security right out of the box, the AS/400 has the capability to protect the integrity of your data, your system, and your company from a wide range of external and internal risks. IBM just can't control -- the human factor.

May 25, 1998  - p. 34
Building AS/400 Web-Client Applications
By Alan Radding
One of the attractions of the web computing environment, at its most basic level, is the elimination of the client as a developer headache. The web browser running on the client machine becomes a universal client. The developer doesn't have to build anything on the client-not windows and frames, not navigational icons. Simple, yes, for the RPG programmer unaccustomed to building graphical PC clients, but ...

April 12, 1998  - Front Cover
Native Java Client, 128-bit SSL for AS/400
By Jim Lardear
The biggest hurdle to conducting AS/400-based e-business over the Internet may have just been cleared. ADVANCED BusinessLink Corp. is preparing to release a native AS/400 Java client applet that includes 128-bit SSL security.

April 12, 1998  - p. 68
A Business Prospective on Internet Security
By Chris Lategan
Successfully exploiting big opportunities means successfully managing associated risks more effectively than competitors, developing solid risk-management strategies and selling and promoting these strategies at all levels of the organization.

November 28, 1997  - p. 17
ASNA, ABL Getting the Message Across
By Denis Callaghan
Amalgamated Software of North America Inc. (SAN Antonio) is partnering with ADVANCED BusinessLink Corp.

September 12, 1997  - Front Cover
AS/400 Gets Pushy
By Jim Lardear
With its announcement of the AS/400e Series and OS/400 V4R1, IBM is recognizing the fundamental shift in the role the Internet is playing in leading edge organizations.

April 25, 1997  - p. 34
Remote-IP Challenges the Internet
By Larry Greenemeier
ADVANCED BusinessLink Corp. (Bellevue, Wash.) released BusinessLink/Remote-IP as part of its enterprise communications line of software products.

October 11, 1996  - Front Cover
Java Links Web, Green Screen
By Michele Rosen
The Web isn't very old, but it's old enough for developers who have begun complaining about the restrictions imposed by HTML.

March 15, 1996  - p. 27
Opening New Frontiers in Remote Computing
By Joeseph McKendrick
The launching of ADVANCED BusinessLink, from the outbacks of Australia, 10 years ago, to a prosperous international organization, today.

May 24, 1996  - p. 20
Intranets as an Alternative
There may be a better way for large sites to connect PC users to the AS/400 than direct connect or gateway connection.

April 26, 1996  - p. 20
AS/400 Gets Wireless Middleware
By Jim Lardear
ADVANCED BusinessLink Corp. announced a wide area wireless product for the AS/400 called BusinessLink/Air.

April 12, 1996  - Front Cover
Web Server Competition Heats Up
By Al Gillen
A product category that did not exist for AS/400 users one year ago is emerging as one of the more dynamic markets this year, as vendors scramble to field software to enable AS/400s to become Internet World Wide Web servers.



April 2001  - NEWS/400
Front-End Product Exhibition: Strategi- Stylesheet GUI Capability
ADVANCED BusinessLink's Strategi is a set of middleware tools designed to move firms from a legacy environment into a Web application model. The stylesheet GUI capability available with Strategi lets you roll out many 5250 applications with a browser-based graphical interface in less than a week.

April 2001  - NEWS/400
Front-End Product Exhibition: Strategi- High Speed Messaging Capability
ADVANCED BusinessLink's Strategi is a comprehensive suite of tools designed to move firms from a legacy environment into a Web application model. With Strategi's high-speed messaging (HSM) capabilities, iSeries 400 programmers can build sophisticated, flexible, secure, distributed Web applications using their existing skills.

February 2001  - NEWS/400
Web enabled data access at high-speed
One of the world's leading metals refining companies has recently created three interactive websites to serve its own operational needs and the information needs of two distinct groups of external users. Each web portal provides access to data held on the company's AS/400; data that is constantly changing in line with the progress of the orders placed by individual customers and any changes made to product specifications. Ken Harrison reports on how the company's small IT team, equipped only with traditional AS/400 skills, developed the websites and links to its databases in double-quick time.

December 6, 1999  - Newswatch
ABL Adds Wireless Capability to AS/400 Middleware
ADVANCED BusinessLink announces a wireless application capability for its Strategi AS/400 middleware. Based on the Wireless Markup Language (WML) standard that lets Web-compatible cellular telephones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) browse WML-enabled Web sites, Strategi now turns any AS/400 into a WML-capable server and lets AS/400 applications communicate with cell phones and PDAs.

October 25, 1999  - Newswatch
ABL Adds XML Support to Strategi Middleware
ADVANCED BusinessLink announces native Extensible Markup Language (XML) support for its Strategi middleware.

July 19, 1999  - Newswatch
BusinessLink Boosts AS/400 High-speed Messaging Solution
ADVANCED BusinessLink releases a high-performance version of its High Speed Messaging (HSM) architecture for AS/400s that improves HSM interactive response times from an average of 50 milliseconds to just two milliseconds.

May 12, 1999  - NEWSwire/400
IBM NAMES Q2 "POWERED BY AS/400E" WINNERS
>By Chris Miller
The AS/400 Division created the quarterly awards this year to recognize AS/400 innovators using the platform's Java, Domino, e-business, and business intelligence capabilities.

April 26, 1999  - NEWSwire/400
ABL Adds Web App Server to EC Suite
By Chris Miller
ADVANCED BusinessLink announces addition of a native AS/400 Web application server to Strategi

April 21, 1999  - NEWSwire/400
IBM, BPs Donate AS/400s and Software to War Tribunals
By Chris Miller
ADVANCED BusinessLink and FORMation mg build on IBM's AS/400 donation to the United Nation's International War Crimes Tribunal by contributing valuable software.

April 14, 1999  - NEWSwire/400
FORMATION AND BUSINESSLINK TEAM UP
By Chris Miller
Electronic forms provider FORMation mg is partnering with ADVANCED BusinessLink to let users of FORMation's flashFORM400 and BusinessLink's Strategi send electronic documents across the Internet for viewing or printing.

March 24, 1999  - NEWSwire/400
COMMON: BusinessLink showcases Strategi
By Chris Miller
ADVANCED BusinessLink showcased Strategi, an AS/400-specific Web application server, at COMMON

December 1998  - Hot Products section- p. 146
Browser-based Host and Client File Manipulation
ADVANCED BusinessLink Corporation launches Strategi FileCabinet, a new component of its Strategi AS/400 e-business suite.

October 16, 1998  - NEWSwire/400
COMMON ANAHEIM COVERAGE
By Chris Miller
ADVANCED BusinessLink Corporation launches Strategi FileCabinet, a new component of its Strategi AS/400 e-business suite.

September 23, 1998  - NEWSwire/400
Sun Certifies Strategi
By Chris Miller
Sun Microsystems has certified ADVANCED BusinessLink's Strategi client applet as 100 percent Pure Java.

July 1998  - p. 26
New Web Tool Combines Web Serving, Push, and Security Features
By Cheryl Ross
ADVANCED BusinessLink (ABL) has combined its Web server - minus the seperate coprocessor, or "black box" - BusinessLink for JAVA, and push technology with a new function to create a Web-based connectivity and Web development tool, known as Strategi.

May 13, 1998  - NEWSWire/400
ABL's "Javalin" Nearing Release, ABL Looking for Beta Users
ADVANCED BusinessLink (ABL) has combined its Web server -- minus the separate coprocessor, or "black box" -- BusinessLink for Java, and its push technology with new function to create a Web-based connectivity and Web development tool, code-named "Javalin."

February 1998  - p. 9
BusinessLink/REMOTE
By Kris Neely
ABL's BusinessLink/REMOTE incorporates an Artificial Intelligence (AI) -based shell in conjunction with a knowledge base to bring excellent performance over lower-bandwidth (read: slow) AS/400 communication connections.

February 1998  - p. 8
BusinessLink for JAVA
By Kris Neely
ADVANCED BusinessLink Corporation produces some of the fastest, most robust AS/400 communication solutions offered today. BusinessLink for JAVA was the world's first Strategi ACCESS™ client applet, and it still provides unique 5250 client capabilities.

December 1997  - p. 34
"Push" Lets AS/400s Start Conversations
By Kathy Blomstrom
Having the latest weather report or NFL scores pop up on your PC screen via push technology is cool, but how does immediate notification of the latest soccer standings make more money for your business?

September 1, 1997
Case Study - Grand & Toy of Canada
By Margaret McDonald
BusinessLink Provides Seamless, Fast Communications for Remote Ordering System.

September 1, 1997
Case Study - Sony of Australia
By Margaret McDonald
BusinessLink Brings "Like-Local" Access to Far-Flung Australian Users.

December 1996  - p. 32
New Clients Link AS/400 Apps Across the Internet
By Pam Jones
Common showcased four new products that provide connectivity to AS/400 applications across the Internet.

July 1996  - p. 55
BusinessLink/Web: A Different Breed of AS/400 Web Server
By Mike Otey
Another entry in the AS/00 World Wide Web server market is BusinessLink/Web from ADVANCED BusinessLink Corporation.



   
June 15th, 2002  -
PDAs Budding in the Wine Industry
By Zillah Bahar
Southern Wine and Spirits now provides sales reps with access to up-to-date information about inventories, prices, or a client's available credit with software from ADVANCED BusinessLink.


June 1999  - p. 26
Providing Web Access to Legacy Applications
By Jenny McCune
Web-enabling legacy applications makes them more accessible across multiple computer platforms. It also makes them easier to use.

As many an IT director knows, the webs the way to go for numerous applications, including mission-critical programs and data that reside on a mainframe, minicomputer or other legacy system. Legacy systems are perfect repositories for sensitive company information. Secure, time-tested and reliable, theyre the corporate equivalent of a safety deposit box. And the web provides the key.

With web access, IT managers can open up an application quickly without having to rewrite it or retrain the company staff. The web also allows integration of different applications on different platforms, all accessible through the browser.

March 1999  - p. 24
Connecting Suppliers to an Electronic Highway (excerpt)
By Nick Wreden
Along with integrating suppliers, technology can also be used to link other business partners, such as dealers and distributors. Ferrari North America, based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., provides a good example.


   
November 30, 1999  - MCnet News
ABL Unveils Wireless Strategi
By Alex Woodie
ADVANCED BusinessLink Corp. (ABL) announced support for the Wireless Markup Language (WML) in its Strategi middleware product November 29, becoming the first AS/400 software vendor to support the burgeoning Internet language.

June 21, 1999  - Monday Morning Update
ABL Boosts Messaging Software Underpinning Strategi Again
By Timothy Prickett Morgan
ADVANCED BusinessLink Corp. says that it has tweaked the high-speed messaging (HSM) software at the heart of its Strategi application server software for AS/400s and radically increased the speed of the overall Strategi product.

March 22, 1999  - Monday Morning Update
BusinessLink Repositions Strategi as a Web Application Server
ADVANCED BusinessLink has announced enhancements to the High Speed Messaging software at the heart of its Strategi suite of tools while simultaneously repositioning the product as a Web application server.

January 1999  - p. 108
ADVANCED BusinessLink Corporation's BusinessLink/REMOTE; Remote PC dialup access to the AS/400 just got easier.
Many organizations share a common need for a fast, reliable, secure way to dial in to their AS/400 remotely using a personal computer or laptop.

October 19, 1998  - Monday Morning Update
New Product Alert
ADVANCED BusinessLink has enhanced its Strategi suite for e-business with a feature called FileCabinet

May 18, 1998  - Monday Morning Update
Java Ready for Prime Time? ABL Says Yes
Most of the AS/400 application developers we spoke to at COMMON said they felt Java wasn't quite ready for prime time. ... Ask Kirkland, Washington-based ADVANCED BusinessLink Corporation CEO Chris Lategan, and he'll tell you a different story.

May 11, 1998  - Monday Morning Update
COMMON EXPOses More New Products
ADVANCED BusinessLink Corporation now has a native AS/400 Java client applet that boasts a 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer based security feature.

November 1997  -p. 26
ADVANCED BusinessLink First to Offer Push Technology for AS/400
After reading the title, you're probably thinking "Is there such a product?" or maybe "Why would I want push technology on my AS/400?" The most visionary readers may respond with a barrage of immediate answers while others remain unconvinced but intrigued.

June 1997  - p. 105
Enterprise Communication Innovations
BusinessLink/REMOTE-IP from ADVANCED BusinessLink Corporations is an enterprise communications software package that provides emulations, automated printing, high-speed file transfer, and security.

January 1997 - p. 22
Java-powered AS/400 Client
ADVANCED BusinessLink Corporation announces the release of a AS/400 client, BusinessLink for Java. This Java applet provides full 5250-client functionality for Web-based AS/400 users.

June 1996  - p. 12
An Ounce of Prevention
By Jim Hoopes
Many companies want to create World Wide Web sites but are very concerned about security.



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June 1999  - p. 6
AS/400s used to help UN prosecute Balkan war criminals
By Seamus Quinn
IBM has donated two AS/400s to the UN's Balkan and Rwandan war tribunals. It has also provided a Netfinity server, 50 Network Stations and installation support from the Netherlands in order to help indict and prosecute proscribed war criminals as well as providing assistance for their victims.

January 1998  - p. 48
ADVANCE TO JAVA
Among companies exploring the use of the Internet in general and Java-based terminal emulation in particular, concerns which are often raised include printing, file transfer and security. Specific technology is therefore built in to BusinessLink/Java to address all these areas.



January 1998  - p. 62
BusinessLink brings Push Technology to the AS/400
ADVANCED BusinessLink Corporation have introduced BusinessLink/PUSH, which provides push capabilities, similar to those found in products such as PointCast and Castanet, from within a native AS/400 environment.



January 1997  - p. 37
5250 Goes to JAVA
By Chris Lategan
On one hand Java, the hip, happening, platform-independent development language. On the other, the unglamorous task of making a desktop machine think it's a dumb terminal.



   
May 24, 1999  -
Two Vendors dominate 3rd party Web server market
By Peter Martin
Outside of IBM/Lotus options, there are two main vendors who sell basic web servers for the AS/400, ADVANCED BusinessLink and I/NET. choosing between the two depends on your skills and the kind of look and feel you want from your Web development environment...




   

July 1998  - p. 12
Java's Place on the AS/400 Is Secure
Product News
Strategi is a native AS/400 server and Java client applet that makes use of 128-bit secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption and digital authentication for 5250 emulation and and for transferring host-generated reports and files across the Internet.

February 1998  - p. 11
The AS/400 Is Big Enough to Give You a Push
Neil Tardy
BusinessLink/PUSH is an AS/400 version of push technology. The product provides direct AS/400 push capabilites that are similar to those found in existing PC-based products. It is also capable of pushing users into interactive sessions with existing AS/400 applications.

November 1997  - p. 51
When Push Comes to Sell
By Doug Rock
ADVANCED BusinessLink believes that push technology has the ability to change the way you do business. BusinessLink has made push interactive.

February 1997  - p. 52
Java, What is it Good for?
By Doug Rock
The new programming language of Java is being haled as the cure to the computer industry's issue of platform compatibility.



August, 1998
ADVANCED BusinessLink Unveils Java-based Browser/Server
ADVANCED BusinessLink Corporation unveils Strategi, a Java-based browser/server for AS/400s that includes cryptographic support, "push" technology support for information publishing and printing, and 5250/3270 emulation.






February 1999  - p. 6
AS/400 & Internet -grenzenlose Freiheit
Autor: Thomas Mller
Angesichts der durchschlagenden Entwicklung, die das Internet und auch die AS/400 in den letzten Jahren gemacht haben, war es nur eine Frage der Zeit, dal Unternehmen die Frage nach einer umfassenden Verbindung beider Welten zu ihrem Vorteil stellen.

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February 1999
Security not a problem with Internet connectivity
By Mayu Mishina  - p. 15
Security shouldn't be of great concern to IS managers hooking up their AS/400s to the Internet, according to Chris Lategan, CEO of ADVANCED BusinessLink, Kirkland, WA.

December 1998
Strategi certified 100% Pure Java
By Wayne L. Rhodes Jr.  - p. 44
Sun Microsystems has awarded 100% Pure Java certification to ADVANCED BusinessLink's Strategi, a native AS/400 e-business enabling technology.

December 1998
Internet creates host of IS problems
By Mayu Mishina  - p. 49-50
Companies want Web-to-host connectivity and AS/400 vendors are responding but IS managers may be getting more than they bargained for

June 1998
Stabilizing a 'flaky' world
By Wayne Rhodes
ADVANCED BusinessLink has set itself a goal of being the first in the AS/400 market to deliver connectivity solutions, even though pragmatic users may not even yet recognize they have a problem.


April 1998
Case Study - Weber-Stephen Products
Getting Data Access Cooking

By Wayne Rhodes
BusinessLink/WEB's BusinessLink for JAVA AS/400 client enables Weber's independent representatives and sales force to check the status of an order by simply connecting to the Internet. Users only required a Web browser and an Internet account.



   
June 29, 1998
Wellington firm taking AS/400 integration to Asia
By Mark Hucke
Last year Team400 became New Zealand agent for BusinessLink/WEB, an Australian technology which plugs in to the AS/400 and makes it Web-ready. The company touts BusinessLink as a tool for cutting costs and getting AS/400 systems on the Web "in hours rather than months".


   
July 9th, 2002  -
Making the Most of iSeries Applications with Strategi by ADVANCED BusinessLink
By Tony Lock
As the impact of the Internet and Web Services propagate throughout organisations, it is clear that ADVANCED BusinessLink's range of solutions should interest many iSeries/AS400 users.


   
December 1998  - p. 12
Atractivos Lanzamientos en COMMON- Anaheim
Por Claudio Canciola
La realización de la versión de otoño de COMMON estuvo marcada por una importante cantidad de anuncios de los expositores.