Database Server/400, Anyone?
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

The dividing line between a server and a disk array not only blurs from time to time. It also sometimes moves around. A system, of course, includes various servers as well as storage arrays, and the lines are less important. The AS/400 and its progeny have always been systems, even though these systems have been injected with lots of foreign technology--various file systems, runtime environments, emulation environments, and programming languages. Even databases. READ MORE >

Who's the Fool When it Comes to Training?
by Dan Burger

Is it true that the biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool? I asked Susan Gantner and Jon Paris what they thought. Their combination of experiences when presenting IBM System i and RPG programming topics at local user group meetings, for in-house training at businesses around the world, and on the speakers list at nearly all the major technical conferences tops just about everyone in this field. They also play a major role in the System i Developer team that organizes and presents the RPG and DB2 Summit. READ MORE >

Google's Love Affair with IBM's Offspring
by Hesh Wiener

Imagine what would happen if Google and IBM wanted to help you build your Web site. Now suppose the Googlers and IBMers created free site development tools that were aggressively open, capable of running on just about any platform, and able to build Webs that could be used by clients as small as a mobile phone or as large as an engineering workstation. Now imagine that all this has been around a few years and you've pretty much missed it, or at least not appreciated it. Maybe it's time to say "Hello, World" to the Google Web Toolkit and Eclipse. READ MORE >

As I See It: If I Were Wise Enough, I Might Say. . .
by Victor Rozek

Watching the reawakening of the human spirit, manifesting in the guise of an inauguration, a National Public Radio commentator said it seemed that the new millennium had finally arrived. Truly, there was something Narnian about the event, as if we had parted the coats and walked through the back of the wardrobe emerging in a wholly different world. READ MORE >