Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Project management, Software Quality Assurance, Development, Lifecycle development
Currently evaluating solutions for iSeries, WDSC & Websphere running on Linux on Pcs. Down to Aldon & Turnover. Anyone have enough experience with these products to compare strengths & weaknesses in production? 
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jacknbox | Nov 24 2004 8:36AM GMT
Turnover is the easier product to use, but Aldon is more Robust. They are both good products, just make sure you do all the up-front work in setting it up and either will work just fine for you.
apothen | Nov 24 2004 9:24AM GMT
I have worked with Turnover in my previous job and is currently working with Aldon for my current job. I think from the prespective of AS/400 development, Turnover is a better tool. The process and the environment setup (configuration) is a lot more intuitive than that of Aldon.
I think recently softlanding integrated there tools with a PC/Cleint Server change management tool maker called Merant. So might get a complete package from them.
Ajish
rcvernors | Nov 26 2004 8:22AM GMT
I have no experience with Aldon. However, I have used Turnover for 4 years and it works great. Softlanding also provides good support.
Dad1989 | Dec 3 2004 7:16PM GMT
We are a very small shop (3 developers, including the manager) without major development–but enough to fan the flames of regulatory inquiries. I was in a similar situation in June (2004) due in large part to Sarbox. We did extensive web-based demos with Q&A. Previous responses match some of the feedback we received during our search.
The native AS/400 User Interface with Aldon was much more familiar in appearance and operation and thus looked like it would bring less of a learning curve. Turnover looked much more flexible in setting up and using environments on the fly, but Aldon’s seemingly more rigid environment boundaries appealed to our wishes to keep us safe from ourselves.
Turnover appeared to have much better reporting already established as options in the package. Aldon reporting amounted to ‘we have log files. roll your own reporting.’
We ended up choosing Aldon because there is a strong business relationship between our major software supplier and Aldon–our vendor uses Aldon themselves. Secondarily, the Aldon software looked like it would be our quickest to adapt to for our urgent regulatory purposes.
We are generally satisfied with Aldon’s change management package.
Evaluate the companies closely as I experienced what I consider significant differences on the sales and sales-support side. As a company, SoftLanding was much more in line with my own company’s technology and customer strategy. Had we not been so pressed to implement change management, we may have chosen differently.
