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Volume 14, Number 37 -- September 19, 2005

 
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Forget Oracle 10g. Let's Talk About i5/OS V5g
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

I haven't been around the computer business as long as many of you, but I have been around long enough to see a lot of technologies come around on the guitar a time or two. As I have said in the past when talking about new technologies, show me a new idea in IT and I will show you a twist on a very old idea. A television ad by Oracle, which has just such a twist, has been getting under my skin lately. READ MORE >

 

IBM Shifts Its SOA Initiative Up Into High Gear
by Mary Lou Roberts

SOA, or service-oriented architecture, is the wave of the future, if you believe the likes of IBM, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle. SOA is touted to be the way to integrate applications across the enterprise. By breaking these applications into reusable, componentized units of work ("services"), the goal is to piece them together across diverse platforms and databases to better and to more quickly respond to changing business needs. READ MORE >


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Big Blue Delivers Industrial-Strength Laser Printer
by Mary Lou Roberts

Is IBM still in the printer business? It sure is. A new Power5-driven printer, which Big Blue terms "the world's fastest high-quality production printer," has just been announced by the Printing Systems Division, which is the Boulder, Colorado, unit of IBM's Systems and Technology Group that used to be known as Pennant Systems way back when. Historically, IBM has always had two printer businesses--the "Big Bluegrass" entry and midrange printer business in Lexington, Kentucky, that was spun out decades ago as Lexmark and the high-end printing and software division based in Boulder. READ MORE >

 

As I See It: Save Now or Suffer Later
by Victor Rozek

"Retail therapy" is more than a clever self-deprecating quip. It is a social commentary, and for many it's a way of life. Which may explain why less then 10 percent of retirees have enough money to maintain their lifestyles. Even for the best intended, life has a way of intruding on saving. A down payment for a house, an unexpected repair, medical bills, a period of unemployment; there are a hundred reasons born of necessity to dip into our savings. There are a thousand more born of manufactured want. READ MORE >

 

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   But Wait, There's More

COMMON User Group Meets in Orlando This Week . . . Oracle to Buy Siebel for $5.85 Billion . . . TomorrowNow Survey Says 80 Percent of JDE Shops Consider Third-Party Support . . . IBM Pumps Up Business Partner iSeries Rebates Down Under . . . IT Managers Fear Platform Abandonment By IT Vendors . . . External Disk Market Continues to Grow, According to IDC . . . Exabyte Says VXA and LTO Are the Fastest-Growing Products in Its History . . . READ MORE >




Reader Feedback and Insights

We value your feedback and insights. Feel free to send a letter to the editor. Letters may be printed, unless otherwise specified, and edited for clarity or length. READ MORE >


Editor: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Contributing Editors: Dan Burger, Joe Hertvik, Shannon O'Donnell,
Victor Rozek, Kevin Vandever, Hesh Wiener, Alex Woodie
Publisher and Advertising Director: Jenny Thomas
Advertising Sales Representative: Kim Reed
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THIS ISSUE
SPONSORED BY:

BCD Int'l
PowerTech
Patrick Townsend & Associates
Lakeview Technology
Affirmative Computer


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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Forget Oracle 10g. Let's Talk About i5/OS V5g

IBM Shifts Its SOA Initiative Up Into High Gear

Big Blue Delivers Industrial-Strength Laser Printer

As I See It: Save Now or Suffer Later

But Wait, There's More




The Linux Beacon
Novell to Set SUSE Linux 10.0 Loose in October

Sun Launches the First Three "Galaxy" Opteron Servers

IBM, Gateway Launch New X64 Servers

HP Rolls Out Improved Virtualization for Integrity Servers

The Windows Observer
Microsoft Makes its Mid Size Business Move

Notes/Domino 7 Brings New Collaboration Technology, Performance Gains

Sun Launches the First Three "Galaxy" Opteron Servers

IDC Concurs that Q2 Was Pretty Good for Servers

The Unix Guardian
Sun Launches the First Three "Galaxy" Opteron Servers

HP Rolls Out Improved Virtualization for Integrity Servers

Sybase Launches Adaptive Server Enterprise 15 Database

IDC Concurs that Q2 Was Pretty Good for Servers




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