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Linux Beginning to Show Life on iSeries
by Alex Woodie
Linux is here, and, according to IBM, iSeries shops
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IBM's iSeries Linux product manager. Johnson says the first
iSeries Linux adopters tend to be small and midsize business
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Vendors Eager to Port to iSeries Linux
by Alex Woodie
If porting to Linux were a car race, you'd be hearing a booming
voice over a loudspeaker say, "Gentlemen, port your software!"
ISVs have been racing to port applications to run on iSeries
Linux. Helped along by IBM's iSeries Linux Test Drive,
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Open Source Is Alive and Well in OS/400 Land
by Alex Woodie
Despite its proprietary nature and reclusive status, iSeries
has a bright future in open-source application development.
Yes, the iSeries can run Linux, the popular open-source operating
system, which will, in short order, allow thousands of 32-bit
applications--most of which are written in C and are open-source--to
run on iSeries hardware. And there's the 64-bit Portable Application
Solutions Environment runtime environment, capable of running
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IBM Releases iSeries ODBC Driver for Linux
by Joe Hertvik
IBM has released a beta version of iSeries ODBC Driver
for Linux, which provides OS/400 data access for Linux applications
written to the ODBC API. The driver can be downloaded from
the iSeries
ODBC Driver for Linux home page and is available for Intel-based
Linux workstations running Red Hat Linux 7.x,
SuSe Linux 7.x, or TurboLinux 7.x,
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High Availability Vendor Ports to iSeries Linux
by Alex Woodie
H.A. Technical Solutions, a Golden Valley, Minnesota,
provider of clustering and data replication software for Unix
and Windows platforms, recently announced it has ported its
offerings to iSeries Linux as part of IBM's new iSeries
Linux Test Drive program for ISVs. The company's failover
clustering software, H.A. Clusters, and its data replication
software, H.A. EchoStream, have been tested on the two Linux
distributions available for iSeries, TurboLinux and SuSE.
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Perception Is Reality
by Dan Burger
Stop me if you've heard this one before. There was this AS/400
shop running applications developed in the Stone Age. Many
of its users saw green screens and thought it was "old technology,"
so management believed that old-technology label, too. Over
the years, tasks were removed from the '400 and run on NT
servers, where users found things more to their liking. Meanwhile,
the IT department saw its OS/400-based world being flushed
down the porcelain receptacle.
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Lotusphere Conference Preview
by Dan Burger
IBM's Lotus division is hoping some of the magic in
the Magic Kingdom will rub off on its 2002 Lotusphere conference,
which gets underway at Florida's Walt Disney World Resort
later this month. Team collaboration, knowledge management,
and e-business will be competing for attention with Mickey,
Donald, and Pluto as Lotus partners, developers, customers,
press, and analysts from around the world converge for the
annual North American Lotus products and technologies extravaganza.
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Duncan Lays Out Strategy in iNation Conference Call
by Alex Woodie
Buell Duncan discussed IBM's iSeries strategy for the
new year in the first iSeries Nation Chatting with Citizens
event of 2002 yesterday. Speaking from New Orleans, Duncan,
the general manager of IBM's midmarket server division, said
the iSeries had a terrific third quarter in 2001, particularly
in Europe and Canada, but especially in China, where the iSeries
has had three straight years of double-digit growth. Much of that
growth is due to the release of OS/400 V5R1, which has been licensed
by 25,000 companies to date, and the new LPAR and Linux functionality,
Duncan said.
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Managing Editor
Shannon Pastore
Conributing Editors:
Joe Hertvik
Timothy Prickett Morgan
Shannon O'Donnell
Dan Burger
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