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Volume 11, Number 11 -- April 6, 2011
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Taking RSE to Task
by Paul Tuohy

Recently, I have been working on a modernization project with a client. Part of this project has involved me scanning and analyzing a number of legacy programs looking for patterns, commonalities, and such. READ MORE >

Today's Horoscope
by Ashley Phix

Today is April 6, 2011. Venus is in Cancer and Mars is in Leukemia. The sun is ascending faster than the U.S. national debt, and descending faster than the value of the U.S. dollar. The moon is a harsh mistress. See what the stars have to say to you today. READ MORE >



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Admin Alert: Must Your Rack Be IBM Black?
by Joe Hertvik

Nothing is more ubiquitous in Power i shops than IBM 7014 black racks and Power Distribution Units (PDUs) that house and power most i/OS systems. Starting around $4,000 list for a base rack, most IBM shops routinely buy IBM racks and PDUs because they are standard for a Power i system. But do you realize there's another option for racking your Power i system that could save you money? READ MORE >


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Technical Editor: Joe Hertvik
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The Four Hundred
Rocket Software Bulks Up i Biz with Aldon Acquisition

AS/400 i Mystery Solved--Again?

Oracle to Take a Run at Lawson Software?

Mad Dog 21/21: Boiling the Ocean

IBM's Brill Says Email is Overrated

Four Hundred Stuff
Infor Debuts Standardized GUI Based on MS SharePoint

Maxava Bolsters IBM i Community with iFoundation, $50,000 in Grants

Kisco Adds Digital Signatures to Spool-to-PDF Tool

nuBridges Bought by Liaison Technologies

'Spear Phishing' Season to Follow Epsilon Data Breach

Four Hundred Monitor
Four Hundred Monitor's
Full iSeries Events Calendar

System i PTF Guide
September 25, 2010: Volume 12, Number 39

September 18, 2010: Volume 12, Number 38

September 11, 2010: Volume 12, Number 37

September 4, 2010: Volume 12, Number 36

August 28, 2010: Volume 12, Number 35

August 21, 2010: Volume 12, Number 34

TPM at The Register
Penguin Computing overclocks Opterons for Wall Street

AMD rejigs fab pact with GlobalFoundries

AMD gases up Bulldozers for Intel push back

UK nuke lab, Korean Air Force buy SGI supers

VMware corks hypervisor security hole

Gartner raises 2011 IT spending prognostications

Cisco dispenses Nexus rack switch for speed freaks

Amazon offers dedicated servers on EC2

Cisco eats newScale for cloud control

Platform wants to out-map, out-reduce Hadoop

Arista punts 10/40 GbE juice-sipper

Oracle's Itanium gambit: A play for HP's checkbook

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Taking RSE to Task

Today's Horoscope

Admin Alert: Must Your Rack Be IBM Black?

Four Hundred Guru

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