iSeries Salaries Are Shaping Up to Rise 2006
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

It's that time of the year again. Not only are you looking ahead to the holiday season and lots of cheer, but you have probably sat through your annual review or soon will. And you are also keeping a careful eye on the IT manager and bean counters your boss keeps meeting with as they work together to figure out what the IT budget is going to look like in 2006 and, more importantly, what your cut of the loot is going to be. READ MORE >

IBM Identifies Hot Markets for iSeries Growth
by Mary Lou Roberts

As one might expect, IBM tries to keep careful tabs on hot and emerging market segments across all of its product lines. The go-to guy for up-to-the-minute analysis data for the iSeries market is Chip McClellan, IBM's senior marketing manager for market segments. I talked with McClellan recently and learned a lot about where IBM and its business partners will be investing time and energy in the near future and what 2006 might look like. READ MORE >

Readers Weigh in on the Hypothetical System i5 for SMB
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

It's an adage as old as newspapers: The power of the press belongs to the person who owns it. As the editor in chief and president of a newsletter publishing company and the system administrator of a server cluster in the IT Jungle home office that I lovingly call "Franklin," since it is both a stove and a printing press, I suppose that gives me a certain amount of press power--and responsibility to match. I consider IT Jungle an advocate for the customers in the markets we serve as well as a means to instructively criticize the IT vendors that provide products to the market. READ MORE >

Mad Dog 21/21: Omission Accomplished
by Hesh Wiener

In mid-September, the New York Times began charging a fee for access to some of the material on its Web site. The sequestered content includes essays by its top political commentators, plus some sports columns and video clips. Other news providers, including publishers of the technical material you use, are watching. So are vendors with online technical libraries. For all these parties, there is much more to this story than a Web site's new revenue model. The Times is also risking its influence, the conceit that it can and should, as Mr Dooley said, comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. READ MORE >

   But Wait, There's More

Renegades Soltis and Haines Put Out the October iSeries Podcasts . . . IBM Launches WebSphere Community Edition . . . Big Blue Tries to Promote Open Source Storage, Whatever That Means . . . JDA Software Continues to Gain Financial Ground in Q3 . . . Computer Security Institute, FBI Release 10th Annual Computer Crime Report . . . SMBs Are Ill-Prepared for Security Threats, Trend Micro Says . . . READ MORE >

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