SYSTEMS UPDATE Vol. 21 No. 1 JAN/FEB 2002 issue

  1. REINVENTING SYSTEMS DESIGN

  2. 3COM #1 IN GIGABIT ETHERNET PORT SHIPMENTS

  3. SOPHOS ANTI-VIRUS PRODUCT

  4. ELECTRONIC LICENSE DISTRIBUTION

  5. RATSLINK - A WHOLE NEW SUITE OF SOFTWARE

  6. TRAINING CLASS

  7. IMPLICATION OF PREFIX 6 TO TELEPHONE FIXED LINE

  8. DATAKEY AND RAINIBOW TEAM UP ON USB AUTHENTICATION TOKENS

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      1.    REINVENTING SYSTEMS DESIGN

For the last twenty years, Systems Design always held the annual dinner in January at a hotel or some   nice location.  The annual dinner was not only for staff but also for spouse and directors as well.  From this year onwards, Systems Design has decided to make the annual dinner a staff affair only.   The environment out there has changed and we have to re-invent ourselves to make ourselves relevant.  The company shrunk from an all-time high of 75 staff to only about 38 now.  We need to break down our inter-department barriers.  “We are a smaller company and must think along those lines,’’ indicated Willy Taw, the managing director.  “Everyone has to chip in to cover another person’s duties.  It is not going to be this is yours, this is mine.  The mindset has to change.”  That was the theme of Willy Taw’s address  to the staff on its 21st gathering on 25 January 2002 held in the office premises at 5.30 pm.

See http://www.sysdgn.com.sg/newsletter/0202/reinventingsd.html

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      2.    3COM #I  IN GIGABIT ETHERNET PORT SHIPMENTS

Market research firm Cahners In-Stat, Phoenix, Arizona, reports that 3Com Corporation has strengthened its leadership position in the copper-based Gigabit Ethernet market with 29.8 percent of the market’s switch ports shipped worldwide during the third quarter of calendar year 2001.  3Com shipped a total of 35 thousand Gigabit Ethernet over Copper ports, according to the figures in the report.

See http://www.sysdgn.com.sg/newsletter/0202/3Com.html

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      3.    SOPHOS ANTI-VIRUS PRODUCT

Sophos Anti-Virus recently set up its Asia Pacific office in Singapore.  It then went into high gear appointing resellers in the region.  Systems Design signed up as a reseller as Sophos provided some unique advantages over the other anti-virus software companies.  The key points are that Sophos is one of the top five anti-virus companies; the anti-virus software is available on multiple legally allowed to use the anti-virus software in the home.  The biggest benefit, however, is that customer who buy Sophos from Systems Design will be provided free anti-virus services including recovery for the period of the coverage.  There will not be anymore time and material charges should any virus strike the PCs or servers.

See http://www.sysdgn.com.sg/newsletter/0202/sophos.html

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       4.   ELD - ELECTRONIC LICENSE DISTRIBUTION

Many of you may not have heard of this ELD.  But those who have recently installed Microsoft products will be aware of Microsoft Product Activation.  This is one way of reducing piracy of software.  In the past where software is sold in boxes, there was a serial number accompanying the CD-ROM that was used as the activation key for the software.  But this method of activation did not prevent software piracy.  So Microsoft introduced Product Activation for some products like Office XP.  What is Electronic License Distribution?

See http://www.sysdgn.com.sg/newsletter/0202/ELD.html

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       5.      RATSLINK - A WHOLE NEW SUITE OF SOFTWARE

Many of our customers are familiar what is GAMIS and RATS.  They are acronyms for General          Accounting & Management Information System and Rapid Access Travel System respectively.  Now there is RATSLINK.  This is a web-based version of  the RATS software and totally different from the in-house RATS.  The RATSLINK is running on the infrastructure setup at Systems Design premise.  That is, the web server and application server are all based in SD’s office.  The modules available are:

  • WAB      -     Web Airline Booking

  • WIB       -     Web Inbound Booking

  • WHB     -     Web Hotel Booking

  • WOB     -     Web Outbound Booking

  • WTB      -     Web Transport Booking

See http://www.sysdgn.com.sg/newsletter/0202/ratslink.html

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      6.      TRAINING CLASS 

The next training class for WinNT4.0 and SDpkgs Administration are on 12, 13 March and 15 March (pm) respectively.

   See http://www.sysdgn.com.sg/newsletter/0202/training.html

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      7.      IMPLICATION OF PREFIX 6 TO TELEPHONE FIXED LINE 

With effect from 1 March 2002, telephone numbers in Singapore will be 8 digits instead of 7 digits.  A 6 is added to the front of all fixed line telephone numbers.  Current mobile or pager numbers are all based on 8 digits already.  How is this going to impact the software provided by Systems Design?  The answer is little or no impact.  But the users will need to update such numbers in the master files.

               See http://www.sysdgn.com.sg/newsletter/0202/prefix6.html

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       8.     DATAKEY AND RAINBOW TEAM UP ON USB AUTHENTICATION TOKENS

Datakey Inc. , the leading U.S.-based developer of smart card technology for securing e-business, and Rainbow eSecurity, a Rainbow Technologies, Inc., company and leading provider of digital content and transaction security solutions, announced on 5 Feb 2002 a $1.2 million order for  iKey™ USB authentication tokens and software for an international government agency.  This order is expected to ship by the end of the first quarter of 2002.  Government employees will use the iKey for secure e-mail applications.

  See http://www.sysdgn.com.sg/newsletter/0202/datakey.html

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