“This week, Ardent, of Westboro, Mass., will announce options
for its DataStage data transformation and movement tool aimed at
e-business. Ardent’s Click Pack, scheduled to ship this quarter,
will provide native reads of clickstream data residing on Microsoft
Corp., Sun-Netscape Alliance and Apache Web servers. The software
will support Internet Messaging Access Protocol, Post Office
Protocol 3 and SMTP, smoothing the way to integrate e-mail with
other data.”
“Click Pack also adds support for Perl, the scripting language
widely used on the Internet, sparing developers tedious hand
coding. Another option, XML Pack, provides both read and write
capabilities for Extensible Markup Language. A separate plug-in for
IBM’s MQSeries messaging software will enhance real-time data
distribution, Ardent officials said”
“Finally, Ardent, which is in the process of being acquired
by Informix Corp., is boosting Data Stage with support for Linux
and XML metadata.”