Lunch, Sort Of, with Mark Shearer, iSeries GM
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

When you are an IT manager working for a manufacturer, distributor, financial services, or other kind of company that uses one or another platform, you usually do not get high-level access to the general managers who run the businesses that provide your platforms. Like many of you, I spend quite a bit of time criticizing IT suppliers--sometimes as a customer, usually as an analyst--but it is important to remember that businesses are made of people and, in addition to making money, are made to support people. READ MORE >

IBM Rational-izes WebSphere Development Tools with Version 6
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

It was in many ways a lucky thing for IBM that it had created the open source Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) framework in November 2001. IBM's intention might have been to give Sun's NetBeans project some grief as well as to foster innovation and collaboration in the tools market, but Eclipse is what has allowed IBM to integrate the Rational tools it bought into the just-announced WebSphere V6 tools for the iSeries in a relatively painless way. READ MORE >

Sarbanes-Oxley, Offshore Outsourcing, and Entitlement
by Mary Lou Roberts

Preparing my recent articles for The Four Hundred on the regulatory compliance hog that is fast consuming the resources of all sizes and shapes of IT shops has really piqued my own interest and curiosity in the seemingly endless reach of this porker. READ MORE >

We Work for the Internet
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Whenever we meet someone new, one of the first topics that comes up--probably in the second or third sentence, in fact--is the subject of work. One of the first things that we want to know about someone is what they do for a living because that is the simplest way to get a sense of who someone is and to open the conversation to a broader set of topics. I was at an event recently, and in talking to some complete strangers who asked me what I did for a living, I spontaneously gave a smart-aleck answer that, once I thought about it, turns out to be one of the most true things I have uttered in my career as an IT journalist and analyst. READ MORE >

   But Wait, There's More

Rumor Has It That CGIDEV2 Will Live On . . . CGIDEV2 Is Not the Only CGI Game in Town on the iSeries . . . IBM Raises Two i5 520 Express Prices a Smidgen . . . JDA Sees Sequential Sales Growth in Latest Quarter . . . Aldon Partners with Telelogic for Project Compliance . . . IBM Bolsters iSeries Sales Team in Europe . . . SMBs Highly Vulnerable to Internet Threats, CA Report Finds . . . READ MORE >

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