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iSeries Nation Town Hall: Keep Current or Face the Cold
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IBM's Top Brass Plans for an Uptick for the iSeries
by Alex Woodie and Dan Burger
Last week at COMMON, Guild Companies editors had a chance to pick the brains of IBM's top iSeries executives, including Al Zollar, new iSeries general manager, Cecelia Marresse, vice president of iSeries marketing, Paulo Carvao, vice president of North American iSeries sales, John Reed, iSeries product line manager, and several others. Conversations ranged from supply problems in late 2002 and the early popularity of the new iSeries Model 870s to keeping loyalties among ISVs and the prospects of running the Oracle database on the iSeries for the first time. READ MORE >
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SCO Launches $1 Billion Unix, Linux Lawsuit Against IBM
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Unix and Linux operating system maker The SCO Group has launched a lawsuit against former partner and one-time Unix ally IBM that accuses Big Blue of willfully distributing Unix intellectual property to the Linux community and of undermining the Unix market with anti-competitive business practices. SCO is seeking $1 billion in damages and is requesting a jury trial in its home state of Utah. The company says that it has given IBM 100 days to settle or face revocation of its licenses to Unix. READ MORE >
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Admin Alert: How to Auto-Answer Printer Load Form Messages
by Joe Hertvik
One of the more common OS/400 job inquiry reply messages is CPA3394: Load form type '&4' device &5 writer &1 (with &4, &5, and &1 referring to parameters that are passed in with the message). This message is generated after a writer is restarted because of an IPL, a printer error, or any other time a printer is reset. CPA3394's job is to prompt you to load paper that has a form type matching the spool file output that OS/400 is sending to that printer. READ MORE >
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As I See It: Myth Conceptions
by Victor Rozek
Say it often enough, and it becomes real. Ignore proof to the contrary, and it becomes a myth. IT certainly has its share. Maybe the biggest and best-known industry myth is that computers are dehumanizing. Nah. No more so than hammers. Well, I suppose a hammer can be dehumanizing, if it's used to bludgeon somebody. But to paraphrase Charlton Heston: Computers don't dehumanize people; people dehumanize people. READ MORE >
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But Wait, There's More. . .
IBM Slashes WebSphere Studio Advanced Edition Prices . . . Get the Latest OS/400 PTF Guides. . . IBM Stops eServer Business Continuity, High Availability Rebates . . . LANSA Receives eBusinessReady Certification for AS2 Interoperability . . . USPS Gives WorksRight Software the Go-Ahead for ZIP Code Matching . . . Clear Technologies to Resell Integration and Refacing Tools from looksoftware . . . DataMirror Announces New iCluster Offering to Bolster IBM Shark Disk Array . . . Vision Solutions' High Availability Software Is 'TotalStorage Proven' for IBM Shark Disk Array . . . MKS Announces Change Management Software Receives 'Ready for WebSphere' Certification . . . 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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