IBM to Promote the iSeries During the NFL Playoffs
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

If you are both an iSeries fan and a football fan, you're going to like this weekend, unless you were rooting for the San Diego Chargers as most of the employees at IT Jungle were last week. This Saturday, the New York Jets, also known as Gang Green, who beat the Chargers for a divisional playoff berth, take on the Pittsburgh Steelers during the NFL playoffs. And during that game, IBM will be spending some greenbacks to promote the iSeries. READ MORE >

Migration to Java Is Paying Off, Intentia Says
by Alex Woodie

When ERP software developer Intentia shifted development from RPG to Java, about 10 years ago, it knew things would get tough. While the IT spending collapse of 2000 was probably worse than anybody expected, the Swedish company says the decision to move to Java is now paying off. That decision also created the foundation for last week's announcement of an expanded alliance with business intelligence software maker Cognos to capitalize on the company's common Java architectures. READ MORE >

Will IT Vendors Set Up a Patent Trust?
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

In a move that was both generous and surprising, IBM announced last week that it would bequeath 500 of its own software patents to the open source software development community, free of charge. With Europe in the midst of a controversial plan to enact laws that mimic software patent practices in the United States, people on both sides of the Atlantic are used to thinking of patents as a black or white issue. Either software patents are good, because they protect the innovations of IT vendors, or they are bad, because software is not patentable and to pretend otherwise is to stifle innovation. With its move last week, IBM just created a gray area. READ MORE >

As I See It: The Elusive Pursuit of Happiness
by Victor Rozek

It's January, the time of the year when the season of hope runs headlong into disinterested reality. A lot of dreams die in the cold, dark days of January, when habit and inertia conspire to overwhelm good intentions. The Christmas bills arrive long after delight has departed, and many are left with the familiar feeling of letdown and the eternal question, "What now?" Discontent prowls below the surface of consciousness, persistent as a hungry shark, searching, wondering, "What will make me happy now?" READ MORE >

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IBM Wins Patent Contest for 12th Year in a Row . . . TECSYS Acquires Application Solutions . . . BZ Research Says JBoss Is Most Popular Java Server, Eclipse Most Popular Java Tool . . . IBM Rolls Out Low-Rate Financing to Boost Sales, Again . . . Oracle Closes PeopleSoft Deal, Lays Off 5,000 Employees . . . COMMON's Executive Director to Leave After Spring Show in Chicago . . . Keeping Lotusphere on the Ground for the Attendees . . . READ MORE >

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