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Duncan Rallies the iSeries Troops at PartnerWorld
by Alex Woodie
I knew something was up at the PartnerWorld 2002 show last week in San Francisco
when 250 people were trying to fit into a room in Moscone Center that was designed to
hold about 200. Many attendees sat on the floor or stand against the wall so they could
hear what was said in the iSeries Roadmap session, hosted by Buell Duncan, the general
manager of IBM's MidMarket Server
division.
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IBM Promises Partners Change at PartnerWorld 2002
by Alex Woodie
IBM business partners descended en
masse upon downtown San Francisco last week for the PartnerWorld 2002 convention.
For four days, Moscone Center buzzed with the chatter of hardware resellers,
independent software vendors, systems integrators, and others who hoped to come away
with a better understanding of Big Blue's plan of attack for 2002 and how
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Frank Soltis Talks About Shared Technology
by Dan Burger
As we all know, Frank Soltis is the lead architect of the IBM iSeries platform. He remains at the forefront of
the evolution of the OS/400 platform, which dates to his initial work on the System/38,
almost 30 years ago. Soltis championed the use of RISC processors in the AS/400 and the
adoption of logical partitions, among many other technologies that have been adopted in
the OS/400 platform that have kept it a current and viable machine.
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Admin Alert: Is OS/400 SNMP Vulnerable to Hack Attack?
by Joe Hertvik
The CERT Coordination Center, which tracks
viruses for the public good, has released a notice detailing vulnerabilities in Simple Network
Management Protocol, commonly used in modern servers. These security holes, outlined
in Advisory CA-2002-03, may
cause denials of service, interruptions in service, or allow an attacker to gain access to servers.
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IBM.
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IBM Offers More Granular 7XX-to-8XX Upgrades
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
One of the side effects of creating servers with increasingly powerful processors is that the CPU capacity in
successive generations of machines keeps getting larger as well. In the AS/400 line, for example, this was a
big problem when IBM jumped from CISC to PowerPC
RISC processors, in 1995. Because jumps inhibit customers from upgrading at all, sometimes IBM has to
tweak upgrade paths, and that is just what it did two weeks ago.
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IBM Extends Support for OS/400 V4R5
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
OS/400 V4R5 got a temporary stay of execution recently when IBM extended support services for that version of the operating system
and the selected programs that run in conjunction with it. V4R5, a popular version of OS/400 among the
AS/400 installed base, was set to lose services on July 31, but will continue to be supported until December
31. The question is, why would IBM extend support for V4R5 when it should be trying to peddle V5R1?
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IBM Debuts Rejiggered and New iSeries Software Support
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
A couple of weeks ago, a long-planned change in the pricing and packaging for support services, for
various OS/400 middleware applications and tools, took effect. The changes in IBM's Software Subscription support services, available since April
1998, on OS/400 V4 programs, are designed to be more appealing to customers, and easier and cheaper for
IBM to administer. Customers were notified of upcoming changes to Software Subscription, as well as a
new offering called Software Maintenance, last July.
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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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