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Rant: Offshoring in the Offing
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
If you've been in the IT industry for a while, you've been subjected to companies--particularly in the manufacturing and distribution sectors--picking up and moving from the former industrial capitals to new industrial areas where labor is cheaper. You've watched as two waves of mergers and acquisitions slammed companies together in the 1970s and 1980s because people thought that bigger is better. You've been downsized, rightsized, and in some cases outsourced as companies tried to figure out how to rein in the people slice of the IT budget pie, which still utterly dwarfs the cost of hardware and software at most companies and probably always will. READ MORE >
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Gartner Says New iSeries Database Sales Dropped by 24% in 2002
by Alex Woodie
Despite a precipitous drop in DB2/400 sales last year, IBM managed to hold onto its lead in the market for database management systems, primarily because of a strong mainframe business and a 20 percent drop in database revenue from its closest competitor, Oracle, market researcher Gartner said last week in its annual database report. While IBM's database revenue declined by almost a percent, it gained almost 3 percentage points of worldwide market share as the market contracted by nearly 7 percent. READ MORE >
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 IBM
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IBM Ready for the Next Database Race
by Dan Burger
IBM is poised to unleash a couple of integration, management, and analyzing software products targeted at businesses trying to more efficiently gather and interpret data as they interact with both customers and partners. Two key products that have the mandate of making Big Blue's Software Group more of a force in the database market were announced last week. The first is DB2 Information Integrator, which IBM touts as a key building block in On Demand computing, and DB2 UDB Express, which boasts autonomic computing capabilities and is aimed at the value-conscious small and midsized business (SMB) market. READ MORE >
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Admin Alert: Using FTP to Copy DB2 Files Between iSeries Machines
by Joe Hertvik
A few weeks ago I covered how to copy AS/400 IFS files from one iSeries to another. This week, I'll continue that theme with another primer that explains all the steps to transfer a native DB2/400 file between two OS/400 boxes. The process is easy to follow, and with a few minor changes you'll be able to duplicate this tutorial on your own machine. READ MORE >
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MadDog 21/21: From Credo to Grief
by Hesh Wiener
The sizeable region between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates is called the cradle of civilization. The way things look right now, it may also be its grave. In computing, the region between terminals and mainframes is the cradle of innovation. It is where Unix arose, where RAID found its first home, and where open standards took root. And, like the land of many names that for a long time was called Babylon, it, too, is the cradle of innovation, littered with graves. A long list of proprietary architectures and software environments died here, often after making contributions that live on. That's the way it is with civilizations and enterprises. READ MORE >
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But Wait, There's More
OS/400 PTF Guides . . . Clarification on Relationship Between Tango/04 and PowerTech . . . Global Software Taps ASAP for BPCS Tool Reseller-ship . . . Zebra Technologies Re-Stripes Partner Program for Barcode Printers . . . Magic Software Offering Pervasive.SQL Database with eDeveloper IDE . . . Kronos Acquires Best Software Customers . . . READ MORE >
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Reader Feedback and Insights
We value your feedback and insights on 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 for this newsletter, but we will contact you before we make your e-mail 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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