IBM Extends Hand, Welcomes ASNA On To Developer Roadmap.SAN ANTONIO -- With Addition to the IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Developer Roadmap, ASNA ASNA Amalgamated Software of North America ASNA Architecture and Services of Network Applications ASNA Alabama State Nurses Association ASNA Actuarial Students National Association (Canada) ASNA Arctic Slope Native Association Bridges IBM's and Microsoft's iSeries Strategies for Both Web Services and the Implementation of Service-Oriented Architectures ASNA (Amalgamated a·mal·ga·mate v. a·mal·ga·mat·ed, a·mal·ga·mat·ing, a·mal·ga·mates v.tr. 1. To combine into a unified or integrated whole; unite. See Synonyms at mix. 2. Software of North America) announced today that IBM officially added ASNA's Windows-based and .NET developer solutions to its vaunted vaunt v. vaunt·ed, vaunt·ing, vaunts v.tr. To speak boastfully of; brag about. v.intr. To speak boastfully; brag. See Synonyms at boast1. n. 1. iSeries Developer Roadmap, a critical component of the midrange system giant's vigorous third-party support program known as the IBM eServer iSeries Initiative for Innovation. IBM's roadmap reference of ASNA's iSeries modernization and extension solutions, coupled with support from Microsoft through the Midrange Alliance Program (MAP, which ASNA co-founded), provides iSeries users with the only fully .NET compliant solution for application modernization endorsed by both IBM and Microsoft See Microsoft and IBM. . iSeries users looking for the best possible solutions for modernizing their midrange systems can now rest assured of support from IBM as well as Microsoft for .NET migration efforts. Third-party tools that make it onto the iSeries Developer Roadmap are considered the primary products that meet the rigorous requirements of IBM's iSeries innovation initiative. The initiative is designed by IBM to improve its support for thousands of ISVs and tools providers, to broaden its capabilities through new and innovative solutions under the eServer umbrella. "Becoming part of the IBM iSeries Developer Roadmap puts ASNA in the position of providing the only modernization tools that extend the value of the iSeries, because we help make iSeries applications to be Web-enabled with services and become part of a service-oriented architecture," said Anne Ferguson, president of ASNA. "This is important to iSeries users because now they have highly credible options to address their unique modernization scenarios and needs." Mark Bondurant, Vice President Information Technology with CBK CBK Common Body of Knowledge CBK Commerzbank AG CBK Central Bank of Kuwait CBK Commercial Bank of Kuwait CBK Christiania Bank og Kreditkasse CBK Campus Beiaard Kring CBK Cannabis-Bundeskonferenz (Germany) , a wholesale distributor of home decor and accessories in Union City, Tenn., said "ASNA's visionary leadership is being validated by IBM." "By adopting a .NET strategy for iSeries early on and ahead of IBM's own planning really reflects the degree to which ASNA is in touch with our needs from a customer perspective," Bondurant said. "ASNA was at the forefront of the market from the get-go, and was dead-on with its .NET strategy. We're more than happy to have followed its lead." Ferguson said the addition of ASNA's Windows and .NET products to the roadmap is a reflection of IBM's acknowledgement of the pervasive heterogeneity of environments, and the significant role .NET plays in the strategies of many enterprises today. IBM customers and ISVs can now be confident with any decision to choose ASNA as a result of the concurrent support of both major platform providers. "IBM clearly recognizes the success and adoption of .NET amongst enterprises with iSeries systems, often at the expense of WebSphere/JAVA," she added. "And that's okay, because by including ASNA, IBM covers all bases in the interests of its customers. ASNA products support RPG (Report Program Generator) One of the first program generators designed for business reports, introduced in 1964 by IBM. In 1970, RPG II added enhancements that made it a mainstay programming language for business applications on IBM's System/3x midrange computers. programs and development environments while enabling modern .NET-compliant program development, something no one else is capable of delivering to the market." To view the iSeries Developer Roadmap online, you can visit www.ibm.com, or go to the following URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/roadmap/index.html. About ASNA ASNA has been developing visual programming and systems software for the midrange community since 1982. ASNA Web and Windows development products include ASNA Visual RPG for .NET, DataGate and the ASNA DataGate Component Suite. ASNA is an IBM Tools Network Partner, an Advanced Tier Member of IBM's PartnerWorld for Developers, a Microsoft Visual Studio Microsoft Visual Studio is Microsoft's flagship software development product for computer programmers. It centers on an integrated development environment which lets programmers create standalone applications, web sites, web applications, and web services that run on any platforms Industry Partner and a Managed Microsoft Certified Partner. ASNA is also a founding member of the Midrange Alliance Program (MAP) and the only member to be both IBM ServerProven and Microsoft .NET compliant. Business applications developed with ASNA Visual RPG (AVR (Automatic Voltage Regulation) See voltage regulator. ) and DataGate are used by more than 750,000 end-users across many thousands of companies worldwide. Based in San Antonio, Texas “San Antonio” redirects here. For other uses, see San Antonio (disambiguation). San Antonio is the second most populous city in Texas, the third most populous metropolitan area in Texas, and is the seventh most populous city in the United States. As of the 2006 U.S. , ASNA also has offices in Europe (Guildford, UK) and 30 international distributors. 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