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Salaries at OS/400 Shops
Outpace Inflation in
Early 2002
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Nate Viall & Associates is compiling its spring 2002
salary survey for iSeries and AS/400 shops, and the long-time OS/400 shop salary watcher has once again
given The Four Hundred a sneak peek at the trends at companies running OS/400 servers.
According to preliminary estimates, salaries for programmers and managers in the first few weeks of 2002
have outpaced the inflation rate. Considering the troubled state of the economy, if programmer and
manager salaries only held steady, this would be a feat.
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IBM Prepping Deals and
Battle Plans to Push
iSeries Sales
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
IBM's iSeries marketing team is extending some of its
iSeries promotions to help push sales in the first quarter of this year, which is just about half over.
According to sources familiar with IBM's plans, the company is seeking to turn up the heat in the midrange,
to pound the pavement with its resellers, and to drum up more sales of the OS/400 platform. This year, the
partner channel is the main way that IBM is selling iSeries machines and software.
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JDA Flourishes in 2001, Sets
Sights High for 2002
by Alex Woodie
While many companies were hunkering down and cutting expenses in 2001, the worst business-computing
year in recent memory, JDA Software was setting records.
Officials with the company, which sells enterprise software for retailers, say several factors contributed to
its 21 percent year-over-year growth in 2001, including a greater penetration in large accounts, a revived
interest in packaged software among grocery stores, and unexpected interest in a line of supply chain
software it had acquired.
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Price Guide for Used
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Debut in March
by Alex Woodie
Wouldn't it be cool if there were a pricing service like Kelley Blue Book that could have told you how
much that used AS/400 you bought on eBay last year was really worth? It might help you make or save
some dough. Just such an equipment pricing service is due to hit the Web on March 1. Midrange Blue Book will give subscribers price look-up
capabilities for a range of servers and peripheral equipment from IBM and other hardware suppliers.
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Vision Previews "Orion"
Cross-Platform Clustering
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Vision Solutions took the opportunity offered
by the LinuxWorld trade show in New York two weeks ago to preview the first pieces of a future cross-
platform, high-availability clustering software that the company will be rolling out into the OS/400, Unix,
and Linux markets over the next year. The new product is based on Java, C++, and XML technologies and
is code-named Orion, presumably after the constellation, so named because of the three stars in the
mythological hunter's belt.
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VARPG Service Pack 4 Communications Fix Is Released
by Shannon O'Donnell
IBM Toronto has released a fix for the communications problem in VisualAge
for RPG introduced with Service Pack 4, which caused VARPG sessions to intermittently "hang"
when talking to an iSeries host.
The fix contains a runtime DLL file named FVDNDCTL.DLL. This file, available only for V5R1 of
VARPG, is a temporary fix; a permanent fix will be made available in the next WebSphere
Development Studio (5722-WDS) service pack.
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IBM to Release New Express
Client Service Pack
by Joe Hertvik
IBM plans to
release a new service pack for Client Access Express for Windows V5R1. Service Pack SI02795 will be the
first new service pack for Express Client V5R1 in nearly six months, and as such it will contain a number of
fixes, as well as a new feature. The service pack is expected to debut on February 18.
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COMMON Early-Bird
Cutoff Drawing Near
by Alex Woodie
If you're planning to go to Nashville this April, you had better sign up soon. That's the word coming down
from COMMON, the AS/400 and iSeries user group that will hold its annual spring conference at the
historic Gaylord Opryland Hotel, in Nashville, Tennessee, from April 14 through 18. COMMON is alerting members that the deadline to get the early-bird registration rate of $1,150 is March 4.
After that, you'll have to pay the full amount of $1,395 to get in.
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Two More PTF Guides to
Keep You in Synch
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Our partner, DLB Associates, puts together the
OS/400 PTF guide for you, free of charge.
In the latest guides, you will see that IBM has released a bunch of HIPER PTFs for OS/400 V5R1 and V4R5.
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Server, Our Wintel/Lintel
Platform Newsletter
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
The name of this company is Guild Companies, and it is our aim to eventually cover the entire spectrum of
midrange platforms with our newsletters. We have a pretty solid set of newsletters in the OS/400 market,
and Guild Companies, the newsletter, is our first foray into the world of Windows and Linux
platforms. I will be the editor of this newsletter, which will have many seasoned contributing editors as
well.
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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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