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In This Issue
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Grab your beverage of choice, get comfortable, and read this newsletter.
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 T.L. ASHFORD
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A New Year, a New Attitude, a New Deal iSeries
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
You can't see it, but I am actually doing the Happy Snoopy Dance. My sheepdog thinks I am crazy, and I probably am. She's dancing with me anyway, because happiness spreads like a good idea. And I must be crazy, since I did start an IT publishing business in the aftermath of the dot-com blowout. But I don't care, because IBM has listened to all of us, after all of those years of complaining and coercing, and it has made an honest-to-goodness New Deal, an almost ideal iSeries. READ MORE >
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Much-Improved Disk Storage Launched for iSeries
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
OS/400 shops that have watched with envy as other midrange platforms got all the latest disk drive and controller technology, while the iSeries made do with stuff that was several years old, will be pleased to see that IBM has rolled out much-improved storage options for the iSeries. While it is about time for the iSeries to get 15K RPM disk drives in 35 GB and 70 GB capacities, two new PCI-X RAID disk controllers are the hot storage item of announcement. READ MORE >
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Sponsored By
 FAST400
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e-mail to cwells@fast400.net .
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Revamped iSeries Lets Zollar Get Down to Growing Biz
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Many of you know Al Zollar, the new general manager of the iSeries line within IBM's Server Group, because he has been in charge of IBM's Lotus unit for several years. He's unfamiliar to many of us beyond that, but this much can be said: Whatever he did at Lotus to compete against Microsoft in the groupware and messaging market, he did it to the satisfaction of his superiors. READ MORE >
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Admin Alert: How to Change Your OS/400 Startup Program
by Joe Hertvik
In an earlier Admin Alert, I explained how to locate your OS/400 startup program job log to correct execution mistakes in your startup routine. If you're not familiar with changing the OS/400 startup program, it can be confusing, because the documentation isn't easily found and most people will change the program only once in a great while. I thought it would be helpful to look at how to create a new OS/400 startup CL program this week. READ MORE >
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Sponsored By
 TAMGROUP
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As I See It: Insight and Outlook
by Victor Rozek
I was fretting about the economy. The way things were going, I figured that Santa--the poster boy for retail vitality--might be the first victim of the Space-Based Missile Defense System. Surely the government would never allow a bearded man in exotic clothing, loaded with wrapped packages, to enter the country. And the thought of old Rudolph taking a laser-guided missile up the, ah, nose courtesy of Homeland Security was just too distressing. READ MORE >
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But Wait, There's More. . .
IBM Server Sales Down a Smidgen in Q4, iSeries Off 13 Percent . . . Duncan Says Goodbye in E-mail to iNation . . . MPG Rolls Out Day-One Support for Sizing New iSeries Hardware . . . Aldon Opens International Headquarters in Toronto . . . COMMON Sessions at Indy to Cover the ABCs of Disaster Preparedness . . . Global Software and CCS Announce Partnership . . . Hilarious Web Site Measures Relative Strengths of Operating Systems . . . READ MORE >
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Reader Feedback and Insights
We value your feedback and your insights into the OS/400 market. Feel free to send a letter to the editor. We will consider your letter a candidate for the reader feedback column associated with this newsletter, but we will contact you before we make your email public. READ MORE >
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Editor: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Managing Editor: Shannon Pastore
Contributing Editors: Dan Burger, Joe Hertvik, Kevin Vandever,
Shannon O'Donnell, Victor Rozek, Hesh Wiener, Alex Woodie
Publisher and Advertising Director: Jenny Thomas
Advertising Sales Representative: Kim Reed
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