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The OS/400 World: Somewhat Set Apart, Thankfully
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
The OS/400 platform was the only server platform to grow revenues in the third quarter of 2001, according
to analysts at International Data Corp. As a
customer that runs its business on an AS/400, Guild Companies is happy to hear such news. But I felt that I
should review the IDC server market share numbers that have been touted by IBM--as well as those it didn't mention--to give you an impartial
assessment of where the OS/400 platform stands.
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Gerstner Hands IBM's Reins to Palmisano, Keeps the Spurs for Now
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
The speculation about when IBM will
name a replacement for chairman and CEO Louis Gerstner is over. IBM last week tapped
Sam Palmisano, its president and chief operating officer, as CEO, effective March 1.
Palmisano will assume the role of chairman by year's end, when Gerstner retires. Exactly
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was two years ago, when it became apparent that Palmisano eventually would end up
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Subscribe to Guild Companies, Our Wintel/Lintel Platform Newsletter
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
When the original publisher of The Four Hundred fell on hard times, back in 1996, I assumed the
publication of that newsletter and also started a Windows and Unix platform newsletter, called
Guild Companies. I had difficulty transitioning from paper to the Web and from subscription-based
to advertising-based publications. In mid-1998, I moth-balled these two newsletters to write Monday
Morning Update at Midrange Computing and Unigram.X at Computerwire in London. This week, Midrange
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Flash Technology Applied
to New CRM Suite
by Alex Woodie
Clear Technologies, one of IBM's handpicked CRM software vendors for the small-to-midsize
business space, recently announced it has completely overhauled its Engage CRM suite, which runs on top
of Lotus Domino on IBM's iSeries, xSeries, and pSeries servers. With a new browser interface, XML
internals, DB2 back-end, and 10 new functional modules, the ISV says it's ready to start winning clients by
doing things that tier-one CRM vendors don't: making affordable software that is easy to use and relatively
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LXI to Resell Maximum Availability's Software
by Alex Woodie
LXI is going into the iSeries high availability
software market. That's the latest from the Irving, Texas, company, which built its business writing, selling,
and supporting a variety of tape backup, media management, and systems management solutions for the
OS/400 and Unix platforms. Now, by adding Maximum Availability's iSeries data replication to that
list, LXI officials say the company is better situated to serve its customers' growing need for high
availability solutions.
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NetManage Enhances OnWeb
Host Access Tool
by Joe Hertvik
NetManage has released OnWeb 5.2. OnWeb
repurposes information from host applications and data sources--including IBM mainframe, OS/400, Unix, and VMS, and proprietary machines
from Bull and Unisys
--to Web, PDA, and WAP-enabled devices. The software is designed to perform several functions, such as
transforming host screens into graphical Web pages without additional programming; integrating
multiple data sources and new business programming logic into a single user presentation; and
providing a drag-and-drop framework for presenting this information in different formats,
including HTML, XML, WML, COM/DCOM, MTS, and JavaBeans.
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Two PTF Guides and More Tiger Repellant For Fast400
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Our partner, DLB Associates, puts together the
OS/400 PTF Guide for you, free of charge. In the latest OS/400 PTF Guides, you will see that IBM has released a bunch of HIPER PTFs for OS/400 V5R1
and V4R5 and has also tweaked WebSphere for OS/400 V4R5. What is not obvious from these guides is
that IBM has been hard at work cooking up bugs to try to stop the Fast400 governor-busting tool, formerly
sold by TigerTools, which caused quite a stir late last year.
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As I See It: A Lot to Fear
and Fear Itself
by Victor Rozek
I remember being afraid. The prolonged uncertainty of wondering if I would survive the next round of
layoffs was almost debilitating. The economy at the time was cancerous, and my company its victim. Once
hardy and thriving, it was visibly shrinking in size, energy, and hope. Staff reductions were as unavoidable
as sagging spirits. But management offered few explanations. Periodically, another group of people simply
vanished without preamble or closure.
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Reader Feedback and Insights
We value your feedback and your insights into the OS/400 market.
Feel free to drop us a letter to the editor and we will post
them in a reader feedback column associated with this newsletter.
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Editor
Timothy Prickett Morgan
Managing Editor
Shannon Pastore
Conributing Editors:
Joe Hertvik
Shannon O'Donnell
Victor Rozek
Alex Woodie
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