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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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New iSeries Upgrade Guide, Part 2
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
We got into the basics of upgrading to the new iSeries product line from prior generations of machines last week. This week I want to bring up a few issues that readers sent in to me, and also go through some of the of the pointers and pitfalls to the upgrade process that IBM has been talking about to sales reps, reseller partners, and some customers. While the new product line is much simpler, getting to it from an existing AS/400 or iSeries machine may not be as simple as many would like. READ MORE >
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EMC to Support iSeries with New Symmetrix DMX Disk Arrays
by Alex Woodie
EMC, the storage hardware vendor that has been dogged by declining sales since the dot-com blowout, pulled a rabbit out of its hat two weeks ago and announced a radical redesign of its high-end Symmetrix disk array based on its new high-speed Direct Matrix (DMX) architecture. Neither the mainframe nor the iSeries can connect to the new DMX arrays today, but EMC confirms that it's working on OS/400 support, which, sources say, could come as early as the third quarter of this year. READ MORE >
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Messaging Technology for iSeries Customers, Business Partners Announced
by Dan Burger
With its annual PartnerWorld conference as a backdrop, IBM is introducing its iSeries customers to Web-based technology that it says will improve communications and collaborative capabilities with iSeries Community Tools. But, perhaps more important, the Community Tools that IBM announces today will showcase the iSeries as technologically advanced and particularly capable of playing an important role in the multiple operating environments many companies use these days. READ MORE >
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Admin Alert: A Little Mid-Winter PTF Talk
by Joe Hertvik
If you're looking for OS/400 Cumulative PTF and group PTF information, try going to the IBM eServer iSeries Support Recommended Fixes Web site. This site displays links to all the latest cumulative and product PTFs for OS/400 V5R2, V5R1, and V4R5, as well as to IBM's Internet PTF Downloads Web site. READ MORE >
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Sponsored By
 FAST400
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Tired of paying too much for Interactive Cards for your iSeries server?
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For personal assistance please call Colin Wells in London at (44) 7766 072 578 or send an
e-mail to cwells@fast400.net.
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As I See It: Process As Our Most Important Product
by Victor Rozek
If modeling a modern corporation after the ancient city-state of Athens (As I See It: The View from the Ivy) seems a more whimsical than practical way to accommodate the needs of knowledge workers, the concept of fair process offers a more immediate possibility of realization. Although fair process bears little resemblance to the slow, messy workings of a participatory democracy, it does share one commonality that will be immediately appealing to management: It is not directly concerned with fair outcomes. READ MORE >
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But Wait, There's More. . .
Jacada Reports Profitable Fourth Quarter, Inks Product Deal with Computer Associates . . . Avnet Hall-Mark Hires Former IBM iSeries Sales Director. . . . B.O.S. Resolves Shareholder Lawsuit Blocking Three-Way Stock Swap . . . EXE Technologies Accuses Manhattan Associates of Unfair Business Practices in Suit . . . Document Management Brings ROI in Nucleus Study . . . JDA Donates $3.5 Million to Canadian School for Retailers . . . Create!form Seals Reseller Deals with Three J.D. Edwards Consultants . . . 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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