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  • As I See It: The Green Gap

    July 13, 2009 Victor Rozek

    When the Great Economic Recovery finally arrives, many expect it to be riding a Green mount. No other sector, not even healthcare, has such potential to resuscitate the wheezing marketplace. The employment prospects alone can make a Job Czar tremble with anticipation. Two-and-a-half million jobs have the potential to transform the brown economic landscape into verdant shades of cash. And since IT percolates into all corners of all sectors, some of that employment should inevitably flow our way.

    These days, however, America’s problem-solving prowess is more challenged than a German lullaby. Looking for answers to problems too long ignored, the

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  • Gartner, Forrester Chop IT Spending Forecasts Again

    July 13, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    This is starting to get ridiculous. And certainly frustrating. But absolutely understandable. The economists that work at IT market researchers and consultancies Gartner and Forrester Research have once again sliced their IT spending projections, and this time around you can’t blame the negative growth on the currency effects of translating sales of hardware, software, services, and sometimes telecom to U.S. dollars. This time, there is real decline, and it appears to be across the board.

    Gartner has shaken its crystal ball–maybe it was a snow globe, or a Magic 8 ball?–and says in its latest prognostications that global IT spending

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  • 2008 Pretty Good for Application Software; 2009, Not So Much

    July 13, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    The analysts at AMR Research have finished calculating how much application software the top independent software vendors were able to sell in 2008, and believe it or not, despite the economic meltdown that hit last summer, 2008 was a pretty good year.

    However, according to the analysts at AMR, 2009 is shaping up to be a disappointment. But not a disaster, so don’t get carried away.

    As you can see from the teaser executive summary that AMR put out for its Global Enterprise Application Market Sizing Report, 2008-2013, the company is being deliberately vague about precisely how the six

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  • EGL Free: More Data, Tool Expected This Summer

    July 13, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Will Smythe, the product line manager for the Rational Business Developer and EGL development tools at IBM, has updated the FAQ about the forthcoming EGL Free tool that our Four Hundred Stuff newsletter told you about a few weeks ago in great detail.

    EGL Free, if you didn’t catch that story, is a free, unsupported version of IBM’s EGL development tools that ride atop the open source Eclipse integrated development environment (or IDE’s that support the Eclipse framework).

    According to the updated FAQ, EGL Free will require a few hundred megabytes of disk space and 1 GB of

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  • Lawson Boosts Profits Even as Economic Meltdown Bites

    July 13, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    It is not an easy time to be selling application software and implementation services to IT shops right now, which are hunkered down awaiting the economic storm to die down so they can get back to sailing. Lawson Software, one of the key players in the Power Systems i platform, reported its fourth quarter and year end financial results for fiscal 2009 last week, and the numbers could have been worse.

    For the fourth quarter ended May 31, total revenues at Lawson dropped by 20 percent to $186.2 million, but the company was quick to point out that at

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  • Valid Tech Names Pat Botz Its President

    July 13, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Valid Technologies, a maker of biometric security technology located in Boca Raton, Florida, has named long-time IBM security expert and independent security consultant Pat Botz to be president of the company.

    Botz, who has been gracious enough to contribute a number of security articles to our Four Hundred Guru newsletter, has a long career that began at supercomputer makers Control Data and ETA Systems, a Unix workstation spin-off of CDC. (Botz led the design of ETA’s computer-aided design software.) In his 19-year career at IBM, Botz had a lot of positions, eventually becoming the security architect for the AS/400

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  • COMMON 2010: Bring Your Own Booze (And I Will)

    July 13, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    It is hard to believe it, but the COMMON midrange user group is coming up on its 50th anniversary. And like other user groups and trade shows that have been put under pressure by the lack of funds for travel and training and the increasing workload we all seem to be carrying, COMMON is facing some pretty stark realities.

    That’s why Wayne Madden, COMMON’s newly appointed president, sent a letter recently to the volunteers that truly make COMMON what it is–a user group by users and for users–to give them a sense of what the 2010 COMMON meeting has in

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  • Microsoft Virtualization for the i Guys, Revisited

    July 8, 2009 Michael Sansoterra

    Some time ago, in an article entitled Developers Don’t Despair: Virtualize Your PC, I listed the benefits of using PC emulation software such as Microsoft‘s Virtual PC or VMware‘s VMware Workstation.

    In particular, I discussed why an IBM i specialist may find using a virtualized workstation helpful. These terrific products allow users to create a variety of operating system (OS) and software configurations without having to buy or revamp existing hardware. Best of all, the VMware Workstation is relatively low cost, and Microsoft’s Virtual PC product is free.

    As a brief reminder about Virtual PC, if you

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  • Subqueries vs. Joins

    July 8, 2009 Hey, Ted

    Please settle a disagreement. Another developer claims that it is bad to use an SQL subquery if the same results can be achieved with a join. He says that database management systems can optimize joins better than they can optimize subqueries, which means that joins run faster than subqueries. Is this true? I seem to have heard somewhere that the query engine converts a subquery to a join when possible.

    –Dee

    If the other developer is experienced with database management systems other than DB2, than he may be correct. However, when it comes to DB2 for i, you are correct.

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  • Admin Alert: Fine Tuning User Access with Application Administration

    July 8, 2009 Joe Hertvik

    Being a robust system developed over several decades, i5/OS has several valuable features that you may not be aware of. For example, the Application Administration function allows you to provide and deny access to many sensitive system functions. This week, I’ll look at Application Administration and demonstrate how it can help you obtain better control over what your users can and cannot do on the system.

    What is Application Administration?

    Application Administration is an optional plug-in for iSeries Navigator (OpsNav). It allows you to view and customize the following client- and server-based applications and functions associated with i5/OS processing:

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