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Grab your beverage of choice, get comfortable, and read this newsletter.
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The Midrange Gets a New Storage Vendor
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
It's not every day that a new company enters the iSeries hardware market to take on IBM in its virtually captive installed base, but today the midrange gets a new storage vendor, Global Storage Technologies. GST is headed by David Breisacher, founder of BCC Technologies, a privately held disk and tape subsystem maker for the iSeries and AS/400 that was acquired by venture capitalists earlier this year and renamed as eStorage. READ MORE >
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PeopleSoft Pays $1.7 Billion to Buy Rival J.D. Edwards
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
In the application software market, three plus four equals two, now that PeopleSoft has announced it will acquire rival enterprise software maker J.D. Edwards for $1.7 billion in stock. PeopleSoft is the third-largest application provider, with $1.9 billion in sales in the past 12 months; JDE is number-four, with $886 million in sales. The merger vaults PeopleSoft over former number-two, Oracle, but PeopleSoft will still be considerably behind number-one, SAP, which booked 7.4 billion euros in revenues in 2002 (about $8.7 billion). READ MORE >
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Invensys Sells Baan to SSA GT, Keeps Marcam Unit
by Alex Woodie
Rumors that the owners of SSA Global Technologies are buying Baan have turned out to be true. Baan, the struggling Dutch subsidiary of British electronics giant Invensys, has agreed to a $135 million sale of the company to Cerebrus Group and General Atlantic Partners, the two investment firms that own SSA GT and fund its growth. READ MORE >
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Admin Alert: Five Things to Do While Installing Client Access
by Joe Hertvik
IBM's PC5250 software is probably the most widely used program in iSeries and AS/400 history. With its ability to create 5250 display and printer sessions for Microsoft Windows users, it's an indispensable tool that, in one form or another, has been around for over a decade. Because of that history, IBM has slipped in lots of goodies that make it a more valuable tool for your users. Given the wide variety of additional features you can activate for a PC5250 installation, here are five special features that I like to add to my PC5250 installs. READ MORE >
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Shaking IT Up: Consultant or Employee? That Is the Question
by Kevin Vandever
Life is full of choices. Stop for a moment and think about how many decisions you've made since you woke up this morning. First, you probably pondered whether you should even get out of bed. After that tough decision was made, you might have anguished over what to wear, what to eat. Your morning commute stress-tests your brain and glands: Should you stop or speed up at the yellow light? Which radio station should you listen to? Should you pull that son-of-a-gun over in front of you who just cut you off, making you spill your café mocha, and teach him a lesson in driving etiquette? READ MORE >
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But Wait, There's More
Get the Latest OS/400 PTF Guides . . . COMMON Fall Conference and Expo to Focus on Security . . . Island Pacific Partners to Tap Consumer Trends Database . . . Magic Software Cuts Prices for Preferred North American Customers . . . SoftLanding's European Subsidiary Changes Name to SoftLanding Europe . . . True to Blue, Geac Now an Advanced iSeries Partner . . . New Book from Bob Tipton Explores Effective IT Leadership . . . READ MORE >
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Reader Feedback and Insights
More reader feedback on "Rant: Offshoring in the Offing" . . . 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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