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Click here to subscribe: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=84778 _______________________________________________________________ Network World's IBM News Alert IBM buys Systemcorp, 10/12/04 IBM Tuesday announced plans to acquire software vendor Systemcorp for an undisclosed amount. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1012ibmsys.html?nl> Hitachi, IBM to lay off 400 at hard disk drive venture, 10/12/04 Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, the business created by the merger of the hard-disk drive manufacturing units of Hitachi and IBM, Monday said it is going to lay off about 400 workers. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1012hitacibmt.html?nl> IBM supersizes storage arrays, 10/11/04 IBM this week is expected to debut its highest-capacity storage arrays, although the products' real differentiator is a mix of management technologies designed to help customers get a better handle on where to store growing volumes of data. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/101104ibmstorage.html?nl> ID mgmt. consolidation: CA nabs Netegrity, 10/11/04 Computer Associates' announcement last week that it plans to fork over $430 million for Netegrity is the latest sign that control of the identity management sector of the network security market is becoming concentrated in the hands of some of the ... <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/101104idmgmt.html?nl> Coming to a college near you: Services science?, 10/08/04 Over 40 years after Purdue University established the first department of computer science in the U.S., a whole new field of study is about to emerge in colleges and universities throughout the country, according to a researcher at IBM Corp.'s Almaden ... <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1008comintoa.html?nl> IBM promotes open source in India, 10/07/04 IBM Thursday said it has partnered with a computing and an educational institution in India to promote the development of open source software in the region. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1007ibmpromo.html?nl> CA offers usage-based pricing for mainframe tools, 10/07/04 Computer Associates Thursday introduced a usage-based pricing and licensing option for its mainframe management products, aligning its offerings with IBM's On Demand model. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1007caoffer.html?nl> IBM, partners roll out ID management suite, 10/06/04 IBM and four partners on Wednesday announced what they call a "major breakthrough" in identity management designed to help business and government agencies protect assets, including IT systems and physical facilities, from unauthorized users. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1006ibmpartn.html?nl> IBM launches WebSphere 6, 10/06/04 IBM Wednesday shared details about the next major release of its application server, due in December, which emphasizes self-healing capabilities and tools for speeding application deployments. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1006websphere.html?nl> IBM champions identity management, 10/06/04 IBM Wednesday introduced services aimed at helping companies build and maintain systems for securing both physical premises and virtual information repositories. <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1007ibmpartn.html?nl> Opinion: Palm launches 256M-byte PDA, 10/11/04 Also: IBM adds finger scanner to ThinkPad notebook; Plantronics offers USB wireless headset; use your iPod instead of a laptop <http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/101104cooltools.html?nl> _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Network World Staff Contact Online News Editor Jeff Caruso at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Veritas Meta Group Whitepaper Database Infrastructure Performance Challenges: Approaches to Better Manage Application Database and Storage Subsystem Performance Corporate relational databases now manage the majority of business-critical data within the enterprise. 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