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Microsoft, IBM Slapped with Antitrust Lawsuits
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Hoping to piggyback off the ongoing antitrust lawsuit between the U.S. government and Microsoft to exact punishment on its archrival in the software
business, Sun Microsystems has launched its own antitrust
lawsuit against Microsoft in the U.S. District Court in San Jose, California. And IBM, which has had its share of antitrust woes in the past four decades,
was last week slapped with a lawsuit from Compuware, one of Big
Blue's software partners in the mainframe market.
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IBM Puts Out, Then Withdraws Updated DASD Fixpack
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Now you see it, now you don't. IBM quietly announced a new DASD
Availability Fixpack for its iSeries and AS/400 disk
subsystems in late February, and many OS/400 shops (such as my
company and yours) were unaware that IBM had put out a new
collection of software patches to fix disk-crash problems that
have been affecting OS/400 servers since early last year. By
the time I got around to checking it out this week, the new
DASD Fixpack was gone. What's the deal?
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OS/400 Shops Featured in iNation Server Consolidation Chat
by Alex Woodie
Apria Healthcare reduced the number of AS/400s at the company from 175 to 48, and plans to further
refine that number to four iSeries. Sea Island Resorts, IBM's first customer to install the
Integrated xSeries Adapter last year, manages a cluster of
Windows 2000-based xSeries servers from the iSeries. Churchill
China deployed an iSeries application that extends
OS/400-based ERP data to the Web behind a Linux firewall.
These are real- life examples of server consolidation
discussed during last Wednesday's iSeries Nation chat.
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IBM Readies Beta One of iSeries Access for Web Middleware
by Joe Hertvik
IBM will launch the first beta of its
iSeries Access for Web middleware program in a few weeks. The
goal of this first beta is to provide IAW compatibility with
WebSphere Application Server 4.0 for iSeries, but beta one
also contains other new browser-based features for improved
PDF viewing of OS/400 spool files, OS/400 command processing,
file transfer, and e-mail capabilities. A second beta is
scheduled for June or July, which is just before OS/400 V5R2
is expected.
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PentaSafe Allows "What If?" Testing for OS/400 Security
by Alex Woodie
Changing the security settings of OS/400 can be a scary thing. What if you made a change that caused your
company's application to behave incorrectly, or put an unnecessary security hold on the completion of live
transactions? PentaSafe Security Technologies has
addressed these scenarios by announcing a new rev of its
OS/400 security software suite that includes a new "What If"
capability that allows security administrators to test changes
to remote access security settings before rolling them into
full production.
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Admin Alert: Switching Between 80- and 132-Character Mode in Express PC5250
by Joe Hertvik
Until now, IBM's Client Access Express for
Windows V5R1M0 displayed up to only 80 columns of data on a
PC5250 screen. With a simple change to the configuration of
the PC5250 workstation profile, Express V5R1M0 now displays
both 80- and 130-column data. With this setting, you can
display most of your data on a PC5250 screen, which opens the
door for a few interesting possibilities.
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Lakeview Technology Adds Business Partners
by Dan Burger
Lakeview Technology, one of the dominant
vendors of managed availability, data replication, and clustering solutions for the midrange platforms, has
recently signed up three new business partners. The partners--Mainline Information Systems, of Tallahassee, Florida; Esource Consulting, of Indianapolis, Indiana;
and Kyrus, of Charlotte, North
Carolina--bring a greater localized coverage for companies
exploring high availability solutions, and added expertise in
specific applications and vertical markets.
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As I See It: Manipulating Money
by Victor Rozek
Quantum computing is
based on subatomic particles called qubits, which have a very
unusual aptitude. Qubits are able to spin clockwise and
counter-clockwise at the same time. But only if they are not
being observed. In that regard, qubits are like corporations,
which also exhibit paradoxical behavior. On the one hand they
want to appear profitable, to attract and keep investors; on
the other, they must also appear unprofitable, to limit tax
liability. Such alchemy is best conducted when no one is
watching.
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TFH Flashback: Decree Settlement Delayed but Possibly Broadened
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
[This article was originally published in the July 1996 edition of this newsletter.]
An agreement between IBM and the U.S.
Justice Department that would bring to an end the application
of the 1956 Consent Decree to the AS/400 market was delayed
until June 28. In April, the parties had said they would work
out a so-called sunset agreement phasing out the decree during
a specified period of time.
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TFH Flashback: After 40 Years, the Consent Decree Is Lifted
by Hesh Wiener
[This article was originally published in the August 1996 edition of this newsletter.]
On July 2, IBM and the United States
Department of Justice agreed to a plan for the termination
over the next five years of the remaining applicable portions
of the 1956 Consent Decree. The Decree settled an antitrust
suit brought by the U.S. government in 1952.
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Reader Feedback and Insights
We value your feedback and your insights into the OS/400 market.
Feel free to drop us a letter to the editor and we will post
them in a reader feedback column associated with this newsletter.
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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
Alex Woodie
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