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        Partner Watch, Dec. 19
        RPG development solutions provider ASNA announces support for Visual Studio.
        
        
			- By Dan Hong
 - December 19, 2005
 
		
        Amalgamated Software 
              of North America (ASNA) announced on Friday it will support 
              Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 and 
              Microsoft SQL Server 2005 in its IBM RPG application development 
              solution products for AS/400 iSeries systems. 
            
"ASNA was the first to adopt .NET from amongst the many companies 
              traditionally supporting the RPG developer," said Anne Ferguson, 
              president of ASNA. "ASNA's development solutions help customers 
              extend the value of their iSeries systems to include Web services 
              and Service Oriented Architectures through the use Microsoft's .NET 
              Framework and today we are signaling our continued belief that this 
              is the best architecture for the market."
            Based in San Antonio, Texas, ASNA is a Microsoft Certified Partner, 
              an IBM Tools Network Partner and an Advanced Tier Member of IBM's 
              PartnerWorld for Developers. 
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