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In This Issue
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Grab your beverage of choice, get comfortable, and read this newsletter.
Sponsored By
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New iSeries Upgrade Guide, Part 1
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
While the pricing levels on the new iSeries machines announced on January 20 will in large measure determine how well or how poorly the iSeries does at new and vintage AS/400 accounts, the pricing for upgrades and the means by which more current customers--those with 7XX and 8XX boxes--have to upgrade is probably a more immediate factor in the short-term success of the new offering. Upgrading is never a painful process, no matter what the vendors say. READ MORE >
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IBM Says ISV Acceptance Is Key to Success of WebSphere Express
by Alex Woodie
When IBM starts shipping WebSphere Application Server Express for iSeries on February 21, there already will be about 70 iSeries ISVs that have incorporated support for WebSphere Express into their products, and hundreds more who are working at it. This is the result of a new program by IBM called WebSphere Express Partner Pack, which is building support for IBM's new WebSphere Express offering, to go after the important small and midsized business (SMB) marketplace. READ MORE >
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The Lowdown on New iSeries Storage Prices, Performance
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
When this newsletter described the new SCSI disk drive and PCI-X disk controller features that IBM announced in conjunction with the revamped iSeries line on January 20, pricing information was not available for these and other feature prices that can account for a large portion of a complete iSeries setup. I've gathered up this information, as well as some internal IBM information on the performance of the new disks and controllers, to help you make better buying decisions. READ MORE >
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Admin Alert: More Info on Default Password, Excel ODBC, Failed Saves
by Joe Hertvik
The nice thing about writing a column is that you sometimes learn more about a topic after you write about it. A reader may provide information or questions that expand your knowledge. You may also run into an unusual problem that forces you to expand on your solution. Lately I've received more information about recent topics that I've written about, so I thought I'd share them with you in this week's Admin Alert. READ MORE >
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Sponsored By
 FAST400
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e-mail to cwells@fast400.net.
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Shaking IT Up: The Application Development Death Cycle
by Kevin Vandever
How many of you perform specification reviews, code walk-throughs, and quality assurance testing in your organization? Have you looked closely at those processes lately? You may want to, because most of them have been infected with a terrible disease and it could be killing your ability to provide quality software to your customers and users. Simply having a process in place could cause this disease. So what's the cure? READ MORE >
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But Wait, There's More. . .
BOSaNOVA Formed As BOScom Distributor, While B.O.S. Gets Delisting Notice . . . Aldon Computer Group Reports Best Month Ever . . . SunGard to Acquire HTE in $121 Million Deal . . . Kronos Acquires Customer Relationships from its Biggest Distributor . . . DataMirror Makes "HA for $60K" Deal Permanent . . . Create!Form Partners with Optika for Content Management . . . J.D. Edwards to Hold Off on Further Exclusive Product Partnerships . . . Manhattan Associates Launches ISV Certification Program for PkMS . . . READ MORE >
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ASNApalooza Contest Winner Announced!
OS/400 programmer Richard Brown is about to find out what it's like to program in the Microsoft .NET environment. Next month, in San Antonio, Brown will attend ASNApalooza, the best place for OS/400 programmers to learn about Microsoft's .NET, Visual Studio environment, and database connectivity.
During the month of January, Guild Companies and ASNA cosponsored the educational gateway leading up to the conference, scheduled for March 5 through 7. Brown, of Reno, Nevada, was randomly chosen from a list of Guild Companies newsletter subscribers who expressed an interest in the free educational opportunity. He has attended ASNA's annual users conference in the past but had not planned to attend this year because of budgetary cutbacks.
Much of the 2003 ASNApalooza will focus on the underpinnings of .NET, and what it offers OS/400 programmers, through using ASNA Visual RPG. ASNA Visual RPG for .NET is an RPG development environment for the .NET platform. ASNApalooza session topics include XML, DLL, SQL, .NET coding exercises for Windows and the Web, and browser-based user interfaces. Click here for more information on ASNApalooza.
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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