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2011 Security Event of the Year
September 22–23, 2011
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Some Insight Into the iASP and ISV Issue
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
In last week's issue of The Four Hundred, I made a logical leap about the problem with supporting independent auxiliary storage pools, or iASPs, that has caused the AS/400 Large User Group to issue a call to arms to compel independent software vendors to support this decades-old feature of the OS/400 and IBM i operating system. While the logical leap I made concerning the root cause of the issue was incorrect, I stand by my assertion that IBM should have made iASP technology transparent to ISV applications and therefore inherently supported. READ MORE >
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Global Financing Offers Power5/5+ Takeouts to Power6/6+ Buyers
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Does IBM want to sell you a shiny new Power7 to replace your old Power5 or Power5+ server and get you to move up to IBM i 7.1, or does it want to sell you a Power6 or Power6+ box instead because these machines support i5/OS V5R4? The answer, as it turns out, is exactly what you would expect from Big Blue or any other IT supplier. IBM wants to sell you whatever you will pay to buy for whatever reason you think you have. READ MORE >
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IBM Cuts 600 Workers; Corporate Citizenship Questioned
by Dan Burger
The relationship between IBM and its employees returned to below freezing temperatures last week as Big Blue handed out pink slips to more than 600 workers, according to the Alliance@IBM, a union group that represents many IBM employees but is not recognized by IBM when it comes to negotiations. READ MORE >
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As I See It: I Think Therefore I Lie
by Victor Rozek
In retrospect, the cultural fascination with lying probably started with House. The popular FOX series features Hugh Laurie as the redoubtable Dr. House, a scruffy, pill-popping diagnostician with a mind like Aristotle, and a personality like sandpaper. READ MORE >
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Servers in the Others Category Do Well in Q4
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
If you want to get a three-dimensional view of the server racket each quarter, you need to look at the publicly available information from both Gartner and IDC. Actually, to get the correct 3D image of the market you need all of the internal information, too, plus whatever data the vendors themselves have and anything else you can nick from Forrester Research and others that count boxes and labels. READ MORE >
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Reader Feedback and Insights
We value your feedback and insights. Feel free to send a letter to the editor. Letters may be printed, unless otherwise specified, and edited for clarity or length. READ MORE >
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Editor: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Contributing Editors: Dan Burger, Joe Hertvik, Victor Rozek,
Jenny Thomas, Hesh Wiener, Alex Woodie
Publisher and Advertising Director: Jenny Thomas
Advertising Sales Representative: Kim Reed
September 25, 2010: Volume 12, Number 39
September 18, 2010: Volume 12, Number 38
September 11, 2010: Volume 12, Number 37
September 4, 2010: Volume 12, Number 36
August 28, 2010: Volume 12, Number 35
August 21, 2010: Volume 12, Number 34
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The Four Hundred
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