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You may also call (800) 627-6013 or e-mail mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . ----------------------------------------------------------- SEARCH400.COM ONLINE EVENT ----------------------------------------------------------- Strategies for building a successful e-commerce site Join us today, Aug. 22, at 4 pm Eastern (20:00 GMT) for a live audio presentation from Andrew Borts, e-commerce project leader at Seta Corp. You'll get "in the trenches" tested advice to develop an e-commerce site. Andrew will tell you about the shortcuts to take (and the pitfalls to avoid) to best use the iSeries on the Web. http://search400.techtarget.com/onlineEvents/0,289675,sid3,00.html =================================================== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LEAD STORY "Dot-coms were "da bomb" for iSeries salaries" The dot-com heyday may be over, but it hasn't depressed salaries and bonuses for midrange professionals. After a few lethargic quarters, raises for IT workers have rebounded to near the range of pre-Y2K. Since the iSeries is at the heart of real business, iSeries shops are largely insulated from the whims of the technology sector. SOURCE: AS400 Network (Free registration to this site required.) http://www.as400network.com/nwn/Story.cfm?ID=11230 MORE ON THIS TOPIC: Take search400's Interactive Salary Survey and view the results. http://search400.techtarget.com/salarySurvey/1,289712,sid3_gci530912_cid345442,00.html Receive career advice: Submit your questions to search400's career expert, Vic Sbrega. http://search400.techtarget.com/ateQuestion/0,289624,sid3_tax284944,00.html For more information about iSeries employment see these search400 Best Web Links. http://search400.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid3_tax2ae,00.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----------------------------------------------- TODAY'S OTHER AS/400 AND INDUSTRY NEWS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [1] "IBM, DOE to partner on supercomputer" [2] "IBM details Power 4 processor" [3] "Take a deep breath and exhale: The exabytes are coming" [1] "IBM, DOE to partner on supercomputer" IBM will announce plans to collaborate with U.S. Energy Department researchers on a massively powerful supercomputer to study complex scientific issues. The supercomputer, called Blue Gene, is expected to be 80-times quicker than the fastest current supercomputer. It would be able to make more than 1,000 trillion calculations per second, or 1,000 teraflops or 1 petaflop. SOURCE: Reuters http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6944417.html?tag=owv [2] "IBM details Power 4 processor" The first technical details of IBM's Regatta servers have been released. The servers will include a server immune system and a self-healing system, which can diagnose its own problems and correct them. SOURCE: InfoWorld http://iwsun4.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/08/21/010821hnpower4.xml [3] "Take a deep breath and exhale: The exabytes are coming" Be afraid. Be very afraid. IBM predicts that the amount of information on earth will skyrocket from 3.2 million exabytes to 43 million exabytes by 2005. Barry Rudolph, vice president of storage systems at IBM and keynote speaker at this year's IBM Storage and Storage Networking Symposium says that the real challenge will not be storing the data, but rather, storage management. SOURCE: searchStorage http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci762059,00.html ---------------------------------------- WEEKLY POLL ---------------------------------------- Will IBM's support of Linux through V5R1 help facilitate your business? Vote now at http://www.search400.com/poll --------------------------------------- BEST AS/400 WEB LINKS --------------------------------------- [1] "Domino & WebSphere: Solutions at work" If you are trying to decide if you want to use WebSphere in your e-business strategy, we suggest you read this article. This article provides links to numerous case studies involving WebSphere. We found this to be a good place to research your options. SOURCE: searchDomino http://searchdomino.techtarget.com/tip/0,,sid4_gci350233,00.html [2] "How to set up virus filtering" In this article the writer helps you to understand how important it is to protect your computing environment from e-mail viruses. The OS/400 virus-filtering feature allows administrators to protect their enterprises from viruses that are transmitted via e-mail. We recommend that you check out this article to get the step-by-step instructions you'll need for implementing this filter. SOURCE: iSeries Magazine http://www.the400resource.com/CONTENT/MONTHLY/200108/tips8.html Do you know of a good article or Web site that should be included in our Best AS/400 Web Links? If so, let us know. Send us the headline, URL and a brief summary to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------- THE MISSING LINK A look at an off-the-wall story off the Web ---------------------------------------- "Queen goes tea-towel e-commerce crazy" Queen Elizabeth is keeping the Royal Pointer and Clicker busy these days updating an e-commerce Web site where she sells whiskey, tea towels and overnight stays at her Balmoral Castle in Scotland. Liz2, as the locals have dubbed her, hopes the pounds she's lifting from thirsty Brits will pay for the upkeep of beautiful Balmoral. In fact, she's throwing open the drawbridge at Balmoral to visitors at a reasonable 4.5 pounds a head to help offset upkeep costs. SOURCE: The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21130.html ============================================== TAKE OUR QUICK POLL AND WIN A SEARCH400 JACKET ============================================== What are your plans regarding OS/400 V5R1? 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