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  • IDC 2008: It’s Post Disruption, the Aftermath of Webification

    January 7, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Art had post modern. Politics and economics had post history. Naturalist Euell Gibbons had Post Grape Nuts, at least until he died in 1975, when he became, like all of us, compost. And now information technology in 2008 appears to have something that the propellerheads at IDC are labeling post disruption. This seems to be another way of saying cleaning up the loose ends in Web-style computing, which is what IDC expects for IT vendors and IT buyers to worry about this year.

    Usually, the key IT industry analysts make bold proclamations about the coming year as another spending binge

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  • Q&A with Marc Dupaquier, Former GM of IBM Business Systems

    January 7, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Q&A with Marc Dupaquier, Former GM of IBM Business Systems

    Just about a year ago, in an effort to more purposefully and efficiently provide hardware, software, and services for small and medium businesses around the globe, IBM created a new division called Business Systems. Marc Dupaquier, a long-time executive in Big Blue’s Software Group and a one-time AS/400 sales rep from the days of the AS/400 launch two decades ago, was tapped to be general manager of this new division. And last week, IBM reshuffled the GM chairs in the Systems and Technology Group, moving Dupaquier out of that role,

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  • Software AG Buys Jacada’s Legacy App Modernization Biz

    January 7, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    German database and SOA tool maker Software AG is paying $26 million to take a portfolio of application modernization tools off the hands of Jacada, which has been trying to boost its presence in the System i market for the past decade against some pretty tough competitors.

    Software AG, which is best known for its Adabas database for IBM mainframes, its Tamino XML database and middleware for SOA-style applications, and its Natural development language for Web applications, has been gradually transforming itself into a contender in SOA development and integration. In April last year, Software AG shelled out $546

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  • Chip Makers Gang Up for Advanced Processes

    January 7, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Progressively shrinking the circuitry on chips has provided the world with an enormous improvement in computing power every year, but silicon-based circuits seem to be coming up against the limits of physics. That means no single vendor–with the current exception of Intel with its X64 monopoly–can rely on its own financial position to keep investing in ever-more-clever technologies to make faster chips. So most of the major players are ganging up to collaboratively come up with new chip-making processes.

    In December, Japanese electronics maker Toshiba said that it would join an alliance of chip and electronic equipment suppliers put together

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  • Bsafe and Satyam Partner for System i and z Security

    January 7, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Israeli System i security software maker Bsafe Solutions is teaming up Indian information technology services company Satyam Computer Services that will see the latter company peddle security services to its growing customer base.

    Under the deal announced in December, Satyam, which is based in the tech center of Hyderabad, India, and has 45,700 IT staffers doing engineering and application development work, will create a services offering that will deploy Bsafe’s Enterprise Security suite to System i and System z customers who not only want to manage security on these boxes, but on the Windows and Linux servers that are attached

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  • IT Action Heroes Replace Chaos With Calm

    January 7, 2008 Dan Burger

    Not everyone finds their action heroes on the big screen. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jean-Claude Van Damme take a seat. You guys are pretty tough when it comes to fiction and fantasy, but could you come up big in a real-life data center where fighting chaos requires a budget and a schedule to save the day?

    It’s time for the IT Action Heroes to bask in some glory.

    Meet Iain Williamson, senior IT manager with Scotiabank. He was instrumental in establishing and executing Scotiabank’s change management strategy that brought automation, structure, and repeatability to a geographically distributed team of application developers.

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