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Volume 2, Number 3 -- January 24, 2006
 
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Mainframes Help IBM Make Its Fourth Quarter Numbers
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Last week, IBM reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year in 2005, and as is usually the case for a large, multinational corporation with a complex set of product lines, Big Blue had plenty of ups and downs in the quarter and is finding it hard to generate revenue growth even as it manages to squeeze profits out of those products. But, the company, with over $88.3 billion in sales (excluding its divested PC and disk drive businesses) and $8.7 billion in net income for 2005, is still by a smidgen the largest IT supplier in the world, just ahead of Hewlett-Packard. READ MORE >


 

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Top Mainframe Stories from Around the Web

(IT Jungle) Key executives are on the move again at IBM. Erich Clementi, master of the zSeries mainframe division, has been named general manager of Business Transformation Outsourcing and Business Performance Transformation Services, which are the fastest growing business units at IBM. And he's not the only one with a new hat. READ MORE >


 

(IT Jungle) Put another trophy in the lobby at Armonk. IBM once again recorded the largest number of patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. After all the papers were shuffled, the total for 2005 was 2,941 patents. Software inventions led the way. READ MORE >


 

(Neon Enterprise Software) What would you do if you had a DB2 database management tool that supported both batch and automated real-time maintenance? According to the vendor, the two most important things you could do are reduce CPU costs and increases availability. READ MORE >


 

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Chats, Webinars, Seminars, Shows, and Other Happenings

January 26 -- Webinar - The changing requirements of data warehousing and business intelligence and the challenges they bring are topics of discussion during this one-hour online session that highlights the roles of the DB2 Universal Database and the z9/zSeries platform. Guest speakers are IBM's Business Intelligence Chief Technology Officer, Bill O'Connell, and Jay Yothers, the DB2 for z/OS development expert. The event begins at 11 a.m. EST. LEARN MORE >


 

January 26 -- Lincolnshire, Illinois - This all-day meeting of the Chicago Area VM (and Linux) Enthusiasts includes sessions titled VM TCP/IP Routing; High Availability and Automatic Network Failover using VSWITCH; and Provisioning Expert for Linux on zSeries. It will be held at the Hewitt Associates East Campus offices and begin at 9 a.m. LEARN MORE >


 

January 31 -- Webinar - This IBM-sponsored Webcast examines how IBM CICS tools can help improve efficiency, maximize system availability, improve CICS skills, and play a role in a Web services implementation. Presenting this material is Peter Siddell, IBM's CICS Tools Business and Development Manager. The event begins at 11 a.m. EST. LEARN MORE >


 

February 6 -- New York, New York - The IDC Virtualization Forum: Making Optimal Use of IT Resources will present the many forms of virtualization and how the effective use of this technology can help IT and business executives address the need to cut costs, support an ever changing dynamic environment, and make more optimal use of their IT resources. The program features end-user case studies, a focus on the "commoditization" of hardware, virtual environment software, and the deployment of distributed applications. LEARN MORE >


 

February 22-23 -- Las Vegas, Nevada - The Unified Compliance Summit examines the role of technology in business governance and regulatory compliance. General topic areas include streamlining compliance activities, understanding how compliance efforts and options overlap, developing action plans, and offsetting the compliance burden. Educational tracks are available in the areas of leadership and design. LEARN MORE >


 

March 27-29 -- Orlando, Florida - The Service Oriented Architecture and Web Services Best Practices conference is designed for organizations looking for ways to create an architecture for interoperability across disparate systems. It will focus on the key steps for implementation, the role of Web services, new models for building applications, and return on investment. Discounts on registration costs are in effect until January 27. LEARN MORE >


 

April 7-11 -- Chattanooga, Tennessee - The WAVV user group annual conference offers more than 100 educational sessions focusing on the use of VSE, VM, and Linux on IBM mainframe computers. The event also includes a vendor exposition. LEARN MORE >


 

May 7-11 -- Tampa, Florida - The IDUG 2006 North American Conference is an educational forum for database users across all platforms. The educational program consists of 11 technical tracks, each focused on a particular facet of DB2 usage. IDUG, the International DB2 Users Group, manages several DB2 technology conferences each year. The North American conference is the largest. A vendor expo is included in the event. LEARN MORE >


 


 
Editors: Dan Burger, Timothy Prickett Morgan, and Hesh Wiener
Publisher and Advertising Director: Jenny Delroy
Advertising Sales Representative: Kim Reed
Contact the Editors: If you have an inside story relating to mainframes, send
Timothy Prickett Morgan or Hesh Wiener a message through our contacts page.

 

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