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Volume 13, Number 49 -- December 13, 2004

The Four Hundred is taking a vacation and will resume publishing on Monday, January 3.


 
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IBM Promotes the i5 on Prime-Time Television
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

If you were surfing through the channels watching television on the local ABC station last week, you might have been surprised to see something that many iSeries enthusiasts have been wanting to see: an ad promoting the iSeries platform and the new eServer i5 on prime-time television. READ MORE >

 

Make High Availability Work for You
by Dan Burger

What is high availability and what can it do for companies that are searching for ways to better handle downtime and make their data accessible around the clock to employees, customers, suppliers, distributors, and others? Much of the background on high availability and the market in the OS/400 arena has been covered in the past two issues of this newsletter. This week, we take a look at the primary high availability software vendors and their products. READ MORE >


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Crazy Idea Number 527: Should IBM Buy Apple?
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

In the computer industry, some ideas come around again and again. With the industry a-buzz that IBM has ditched its $11 billion desktop and laptop PC business for a paltry $1.25 billion in cash and stock, some people are beginning to murmur, half in jest, that this might actually be a precursor to an IBM acquisition of Apple. In some ways, this makes perfect sense, and in others, it is downright crazy. Is an IBM-Apple combo thinkable, much less possible? READ MORE >

 

Mad Dog 21/21: The Dry Fish Affair
by Hesh Wiener

In Scandinavian countries, like Minnesota, it's lutfisk season. Lutfisk (or lutefisk) is a special kind of dried fish, often cod, that, when hydrated and cooked, is a potent source of fragrance, holiday cheer--and opinions. It evokes traditions going back several hundred years at least, and possibly as far as the reign of 10th Century Danish King Harald Blatand, or King Harold Bluetooth. Lutfisk is to the infinitely more powerful olfactory signaling food surströmming, fermented Baltic herring, as Bluetooth wireless networking is to the 802.11 family of communication technologies. READ MORE >

 

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  But Wait, There's More

Look for the 'Four Hundred 2005 Special Report' . . . FalconStor, ICM Partner for iSeries Storage Gateway . . . Greif Says It Saves $1 Million with SSA Global Applications on the i5 . . . The Sports Authority Buys 18,000-Employee License for Kronos iSeries Central . . . IBM Sets Up Power.org Community for Power Chips . . . Oracle to Merge Apps After PeopleSoft 9, If It Prevails . . . WRQ Acquired by Venture Capitalists . . . READ MORE >




Happy Holidays!

After a year full of exciting changes in the information technology market, we have all earned a brief respite from having to process any more information about IT. It is the holiday season, and that is the time for family and friends, as well as some quiet contemplation. But before we close out the year here at the IT Jungle, I have some thoughts I would like to share with you. READ MORE >


Editor: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Managing Editor: Shannon Pastore
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
Contact the Editors: To contact anyone on the IT Jungle Team
Go to our contacts page and send us a message.



THIS ISSUE
SPONSORED BY:

Aldon
Bytware
Vision Solutions
Computer Keyes
WorksRight Software


BACK ISSUES

TABLE OF
CONTENTS
IBM Promotes the i5 on Prime-Time Television

Make High Availability Work for You

Crazy Idea Number 527: Should IBM Buy Apple?

Mad Dog 21/21: The Dry Fish Affair

But Wait, There's More




The Linux Beacon
Sybase, IBM Team to Bring ASE to Power-Linux

Future Power "Cell" Chip Will Probably Run Linux--And Well

Server Market Grows in the Third Quarter

The Windows Observer
New Windows Server 2003 SP1, SQL Server 2005 Betas Available

Update on Microsoft and Sun Partnership

IDC Makes Its IT Prognostications for 2005

The Unix Guardian
HP Bites the Bullet, Cuts TruCluster from Future HP-UX

Sun Pumps Up Big Partners to Push Solaris, Linux

Solaris 10 Is All About Performance




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