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Are iSeries Regatta and OS/400 V5R2 Announcements Imminent?
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
The buzz going around the midrange is that IBM will
introduce at least some of the iSeries Regatta machines, and possibly OS/400 V5R2 as well, by the end of
April. I told you last week that I had been hearing rumors to this effect, but now some more concrete
information has come along. The circumstantial evidence that IBM has moved at least part of the next-
generation iSeries announcements forward is strong, so you might want to talk to your IBM rep or reseller
if you are in the middle of a deal.
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IBM Defies Financial Gravity No Longer, Server Sales Down
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
IBM last week did something it hasn't done for more than
a decade: It warned Wall Street that it is not going to make its numbers. IBM has used a mix of financial
engineering tricks to buoy up its earnings in recent tough quarters, but the temptation to play around with
its numbers has evaporated in the wake of the Enron collapse. So IBM's chief financial officer, John Joyce,
played it straight and said that Big Blue's first quarter isn't going to be great.
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BCC Claims Foul Play from IBM in iSeries Disk Market
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Competing with IBM has never been an easy thing, in any
market, in any time during its nine decades of existence. Partnering with Big Blue has never been easy,
either. So you can imagine the difficulties that BCC
Technologies, one of two third-party disk suppliers for the iSeries market, has had in selling its disk
arrays, which are based on raw IBM drives and backed by IBM service and financing, against IBM's
MidMarket Server Division.
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Special Report: The State of OS/400 User Groups
by Alex Woodie
Life was good for AS/400 types around Cincinnati during the Y2K conversion. The tri-state area of
southern Ohio, southern Indiana, and northern Kentucky is a cradle of industry, and many manufacturers
were screaming for AS/400 programmers to bring their systems up to speed before Y2K wiped them out.
"People used to call up and say, 'Give me anyone who can spell RPG,'" said Nancy Chance, president of TriState Midrange Users Group. The
job market responded in kind, and AS/400 talent poured into the area. At the same time, TSMUG found its
membership roles filling, and things were going well.
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Continue your training and education with
some of the industry's greatest minds leading
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SSA GT Gets Big OS/400, Unix Bases with interBiz Buy
by Alex Woodie
As first reported in Midrange Stuff, OS/400 Edition, SSA Global Technologies has acquired the PRMS suite of
OS/400 ERP software from Computer Associates, along
with 12 other business applications that were sold by CA's interBiz unit. The purchase marks the beginning of a new era for
SSA, a company that soared during the ERP boom of the early and middle 1990s but suffered from poor
platform and business decisions before Y2K. Today, under new management, the Chicago software house
is rising again.
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Symantec to Deliver Hardened Linux Firewall for iSeries
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Symantec, one of the dominant vendors of antivirus,
firewall, and other security programs for desktop and server computers, will announce this week that it is
working with IBM to deliver a hardened firewall that will
run within an iSeries Linux partition and provide protection for the iSeries or other connected servers on
corporate networks. The firewall is a tweaked version of Symantec's Enterprise Firewall for Windows and
Solaris servers, and it is expected to be available in the second half of 2002.
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ISERIES NATION
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iSeries Nation is excited to invite you to a conference
call April 23, Bill Zeitler, IBM senior vice president and group
executive, Server Group.
Bill will join Buell Duncan, general manager, IBM iSeries, in an
iSeries Nation Chatting with Citizens program.
The conference call will feature IBM strategy and the strategic role that iSeries plays in it.
Please note that you must register prior to this call. You may do so
by clicking here
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But Wait, There's More. . . .
IBM to Spotlight WESCO Hybrid OS/400-Windows Solution at COMMON . . . Profound Logic Launches
iSeriesLink Applet Development Site . . . IBM Going to Seagate for 17.54 GB Drives, Too . . . The Latest
Firmware Update Levels for IBM's UltraStar Disks . . . Woodbury, Vanderwall Form SkyView Partners,
New Security Consultancy . . . NetManage Announces RUMBA 7.1 for Midrange Connectivity . . .
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As I See It: A Brief History of Employee/Manager Relationships
by Victor Rozek
Throughout history, the relationship between management and employees has been strained at best.
Consider, for instance, the pharaoh as CEO. No unions, no OSHA, no disability, and lots of unpaid
overtime. People built pyramids until they dropped and then were replaced by fresh workers. No severance,
no death benefits. The lash settled all disputes, and a few welts on the back provided employee
empowerment. In spite of such treatment, Egypt's first CEOs were considered gods, thus setting a dreadful
precedent.
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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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