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Big Blue Reveals Future Plans for iSeries Software by Timothy Prickett Morgan As part of its official rollout of OS/400 V5R2 last week, IBM revealed some of its intentions for future OS/400 releases and their associated systems programs. Because IBM likes happy OS/400 customers, the company has always been better than its competitors at revealing future plans, and it has given AS/400 and iSeries customers a healthy amount of warning about impending changes to AS/400 or iSeries hardware and OS/400 software or in the way that programs are packaged and priced. READ MORE >	IBM Sells Disk Biz, Vows to Fight On in Storage by Timothy Prickett Morgan After months of intensive negotiations, IBM has inked an agreement that will see the company exit the hard disk drive business that it established in 1956. Hitachi has acquired nearly all of IBM's intellectual property, research, manufacturing, and sales resources associated with the disk drive business for $2.05 billion. Although IBM is exiting the disk drive business, it has vowed that it will continue to be an aggressive maker of disk arrays and other products that incorporate disks. READ MORE >
Sponsored By JACADA Research on Presentation Integration Server Market Many changes have occurred in the presentation integration server market according to Gartner's most recent Magic Quadrant research. Jacada is positioned in the leader quadrant for the fifth year in a row. This is important research for anyone planning presentation integration server projects. View the report courtesy/with compliments of Jacada at www.jacada.com/gartner/quadrant32	Sponsored By MAXIMUM AVAILABILITY We used to say *noMAX data replication software is quick, easy and inexpensive to install — now we leave that to our customers. Hugh Morgan B.Sc. IS Manager, Edmonton Tube and Alloys: "The current (and planned) capabilities of the *noMAX software are a perfect fit for our availability needs and budget. I would certainly not hesitate to recommend the *noMAX software to anyone requiring a replication or availability solution." Visit www.maximumavailability.com now to download your free trial.
Linux Vendors to Create Single UnitedLinux Distribution by Timothy Prickett Morgan Four big commercial Linux distributors ganged up last week to do what should have been done years ago: create a single Linux distribution that is certified across the widest variety of desktop, workstation, and server platforms. Caldera International, Conectiva, SuSE, and Turbolinux essentially want to commercialize the Linux Standard Base, or LSB, specification of Linux, and get all of the Linux vendors, including Red Hat, to use it, so they can all focus on providing auxiliary programs and services that run on this UnitedLinux distribution. READ MORE >	Itanium 2 Servers Will Rival iSeries Machines in OLTP Power by Timothy Prickett Morgan Intel raised the curtain on the forthcoming "McKinley" Itanium 2 processor last week, which more or less fulfills the promises Intel made way back in 1996 for the "Merced" first generation Itanium chip. The company says that the 1 GHz Itanium 2 will offer from 1.5 to 2 times the performance as the 800 MHz Merceds, which shipped last year, and that Itanium 2 will ship in mid-year. The scuttlebutt is that Itanium 2 will debut on July 8. READ MORE >
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Admin Alert: Four Steps to Creating a Subsystem by Joe Hertvik OS/400 comes preconfigured with many subsystems designed to segment system workloads. For example, you use the QCTL subsystem for the controlling subsystem that starts the system console and other subsystems after an IPL, you use QINTER for interactive jobs, and use QBATCH for production processing. But sometimes IBM's subsystems aren't enough and you need to create a new subsystem for specific types of workloads. What you need is a subsystem that you can start or end at will, without disrupting your other system jobs. READ MORE >	Sage to Bring ERP Suite to Linux on iSeries and xSeries by Alex Woodie English software powerhouse The Sage Group, the fifth largest ERP vendor in the world, according to AMR Research, gave enterprise Linux a serious boost when it recently signed a partnership agreement with IBM to port its largest line of business software, Line 500, from Microsoft Windows to Linux, and to run it on iSeries and xSeries servers. READ MORE >
Sponsored By CLIENT SERVER DEVELOPMENT LEARN SQL BY EXAMPLE! Buy your copy of iSeries and AS/400 SQL at Work direct from the author, Howard F. Arner, Jr. This is THE book to teach you SQL on the iSeries and AS/400 platform. Howard takes you through SQL by example. The book comes with a CD that has all of the sample data and queries used in the book and a FREE copy of SQLThing that you can use to work through the examples in the book. Learn by doing! Order your copy at SQLThing.com	Sponsored By TRAMENCO Join your colleagues at the ultimate iSeries and AS/400 conference June 16 – 19. Sign up for the iSeries and AS/400 Connection Conference in beautiful Naples, Florida. To register, or to view the complete course agenda, click to www.tramenco.com/naples. Reserve your spot today.
But Wait, There's More . . . IBM Restructuring Comes to About 7,000 Layoffs, Maybe $2.5 Billion in Writeoffs So Far . . . EMC Says It Does Not Modify OS/400 Source Code . . . Get The Latest OS/400 PTF Guide . . . Joe Mertens Comes Full Circle with Sirius Job . . . DataMirror Extends Final Offer for IDION . . . Coglin Mill Makes Personnel Moves . . . READ MORE >	Shaking IT Up: RPG's Been Where Java's Going by Kevin Vandever What goes around comes around. Be careful who you step on while on the way to the top. Don't burn any bridges. Some of us wisely live by such mantras; others pay no nevermind. But there always comes a day when the accounts are balanced, when things are reckoned. The word on the street is that Java's time may have come and gone, and this may have as much to do with how Java's stewards have handled Java's marketing as with how they have created new technologies. READ MORE >
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