• Gartner Gives Annual Report Cards to Server Makers

  February 25, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The analysts at Gartner have finished their box and sales counting for the worldwide server market for 2007, and the good news is that companies continued to invest in server technology, boosting worldwide sales by 3.8 percent to $54.8 billion compared with 2006. That revenue growth was driven by even faster increases in shipments of feature-packed boxes, with shipments worldwide up 7.4 percent to 8.84 million units. The server world may be going virtual, but there is a lot of iron–tens of millions of production servers–that need to be replaced. The server market has had its ups and downs in

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• As I See It: Change in Plan

  February 25, 2008 Victor Rozek

  At some point, we all come face to face with the specter of limitation as time begins to pare down our options, awakening a dormant sense of urgency. It is, in part, a whimsical reminder that we’ll never become the major leaguer, or the astronaut, or the ballerina we once wanted to be. More bluntly, it is the humbling confirmation that we are not yet independently wealthy, are unlikely to win national acclaim, or have our book plugged by Oprah. It is the time when idealists discover that not only have they failed to save the world, they haven’t even

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• IDC Tweaks Global IT Spending Estimates Downward for 2008

  February 25, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The analysts at IT market researcher IDC have taken a look at the state of the global economy and have decided that their initial estimates for spending in the information technology area in 2008 were just a tad bit rosy. And therefore, IDC has decided to lower its forecast for IT spending this year, despite the explosive growth in emerging markets and mostly because of a spending slowdown in IT in particular and in the overall economy in the United States. “While there is still debate over the severity and length of a U.S. economic slowdown, we do know that

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• Reader Feedback on Net Neutrality Comes Around on the Ferris Wheel Again

  February 25, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The issue of Net Neutrality can get the blood boiling, and it should considering that the stakes are very high for our public lives and private economics as citizens and for the telecom and Internet giants who are vying to shape how the Net is regulated–or not. Here are some thoughts from a reader on the subject, which reflect a common viewpoint on the issue. And the strong language that people sometimes use as they discuss the issue. –TPM It all depends on how you slice it. These types of “services” that might include phone, cable, satellite TV, electricity, water,

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• IBM Offers Integrated Server and Storage Support

  February 25, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  In case you didn’t catch it, the big buyers of mainframes and high-end Power servers have been shaping IBM‘s product strategies for the past couple of years, despite all of the jawboning at Big Blue about the importance of the small and medium business server market. The truth is that there have always been at least two IBMs: one that served mainframe shops and one that serves midrange shops, and as much as IBM wants to change product and divisional names and related product strategies, it always comes to the same conclusions. The reason why IBM created the Power

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• NetManage Finishes 2007 on a High Note as Rocket Awaits

  February 25, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  In December, Rocket Software, a privately held maker of System i and mainframe tools, offered $69 million to acquire NetManage, a maker of host connectivity and application modernization tools for mainframes and System i servers. The offer came after years of ups and downs and consolidation in the tools and connectivity market. And it looks like NetManage is on the financial mend as Rocket Software is working to get the financing to close the NetManage deal. In the fourth quarter ended December 31, NetManage said that its revenues hit $10.9 million, up 27 percent compared to the fourth

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• Imation Previews Super-Dense Adjacent Track Tape Tech

  February 25, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Researchers at Imation, the magnetic tape manufacturer that was spun out of 3M in 1996 and which is one of the dominant makers of removable data storage media, recently announced a new breakthrough in its tape technology that will allow it to double the capacity on existing LTO-4 tape cartridges. Materials scientist Denis Langlois from Imation recently demonstrated a new multichannel, adjacent track data writing and reading technique that the company has created for LTO-4 tapes. The new technique was shown at the Information Storage Industry Consortium trade show in San Jose, one of the epicenters of storage technology

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• Majority of IT Managers Planning for Windows Server 2008, Survey Says

  February 25, 2008 Alex Woodie

  A survey conducted for Internet computer retailer CDW found that 63 percent of IT decision makers are planning to implement Windows Server 2008, a good indicator for Microsoft and its new operating system. CDW paid a company called Walker Information to conduct the first Windows Server 2008 Tracking Poll, along with the third Windows Vista Tracking Poll, during the first week of November. The group asked 772 IT decision makers a variety of questions about their views on the two operating systems, which corresponds with a statistical error rate of 3.5 percent. The survey found that 45 percent of IT

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• Getting MySQL Working With PHP

  February 20, 2008 Brian Kelly

  This is the third in a series of four articles by Brian Kelley on PHP. MySQL is a common open source SQL database management system. It is developed and distributed by MySQL AB, a company that builds its business by providing services around MySQL. This relational database was first developed for Unix and Linux applications. It became popular when Internet Service Providers found out that MySQL was a relational database that could be offered free of charge to their Internet customers. The MySQL “product” could provide all the storage and retrieval functionality that a dynamic Web application needs. MySQL

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• LPEX Edit in Hex Mode

  February 20, 2008 Hey, Ted

  Thanks for your article, Let WDSc Help You Format Your Source Code. Prior to using WDSc, I used a tool to colorize my RPG source code. It applied different colors to various types of lines (comments, loop structures, etc.). LPEX doesn’t seem to be able to understand the hex code and displays box symbols for the hex value. Is there something in the parser controls that will make LPEX recognize the hex value or simply ignore it? –Eddie I don’t know if there’s anything in those parser controls that will make LPEX interpret those p-field codes or not, Eddie.

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