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Volume 1, Number 30 -- September 29, 2004


 
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Mainframe Migration Alliance Gains New Members, Web Site
by Alex Woodie

While nobody will make the mistake again of declaring the mainframe dead for a while, a group of vendors led by Microsoft is stepping up the call for moving older mainframe applications onto cheaper Wintel servers. Yesterday Microsoft announced the addition of 12 new members to Mainframe Migration Alliance, which also launched a Web site, www.mainframemigration.org, which will be the hub for the distribution of migration-related information and co-marketing activities. READ MORE >

 

Microsoft 'Steps Up' with More Flexible Windows Licensing
by Alex Woodie

Growing Windows shops that need to upgrade their server software, but don't want to break the bank doing it, will be glad to hear that Microsoft has made its "Step Up" licensing program permanent. Under the Step Up program, which was originally launched with a limited 12-month lifetime, about a year ago, customers moving from standard to enterprise versions of Windows programs don't have to pay the full cost of the enterprise version, which they previously had to pay. READ MORE >


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JBoss 4.0 Gets J2EE Support, Takes on IBM, BEA, and Others
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

JBoss has turned up the heat in the middleware market now that it has delivered JBoss Application Server 4.0, the first open source application server to be certified as a J2EE 1.4 application server. The software, being released under the Lesser General Public License and as a commercial product through JBoss, is the result of three years of development, and it is sure to upset some of the marketing plans of commercial J2EE application server makers IBM, BEA Systems, Oracle, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems. READ MORE >

 

Azul's Network-Attached Processing to Shake Up Server Market
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

The advent of n-tier computing, where the database, application, and presentation layers of an application are spread out over multiple, incompatible servers, has allowed much more diverse and flexible applications than would have been possible or affordable using central hosts or even simple client/server architectures. But n-tier architectures have their limitations, and Azul Systems, a secretive startup founded in April 2002, thinks it has an answer to the nightmare of managing those application servers. READ MORE >

 

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  But Wait, There's More

HP Deep Sixes Itanium Workstations . . . Gartner Says Microsoft, IBM Lead in Web Services, SOAs . . . Microsoft Leads Integration Server Pack, Says Nucleus . . . Microsoft Taps Former IBMer to Lead Public Sector Business . . . IDC Says Growth in PC Shipments Peaked in Q2 . . . Study Says American High Tech Has Lost 200,000 Jobs . . . READ MORE >




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

TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Mainframe Migration Alliance Gains New Members, Web Site

Microsoft 'Steps Up' with More Flexible Windows Licensing

JBoss 4.0 Gets J2EE Support, Takes on IBM, BEA, and Others

Azul's Network-Attached Processing to Shake Up Server Market

But Wait, There's More




The Four Hundred
OS/400 Shops in Limbo During Oracle-PeopleSoft Fight

As I See It: Trust but Verify: Computer Science and Democracy

Modernizing Apps, IBM Toronto Labs in Spotlight At COMMON

The Linux Beacon
Companies Want Good Enough IT, Not 'Best of Breed'

New TPC Benchmarks Are on the Horizon

Leasing Strategies at the Big Four Server Makers

The Unix Guardian
Sun Debuts Next Batch of Kit As Solaris 10 Looms Large

Sun Stakes Claim on Financial Services

Sun's Wall Street Act Includes Contrition




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