Midrange Server Windows & Linux Edition, May 15, 2002

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Windows & Linux Edition Volume 1, Number 15 - May 15, 2002 In This Issue Bill's, Andy's, and Linus' Enterprise Adventure, Every Week View this newsletter online at: http://www.midrangeserver.com/mid/mid051502.html Sponsored By ASNA ASNA Visual RPG (AVR) Won the Editors' Choice Apex Award for Application Development & the Readers' Choice Apex Award for eCommerce! Magazine editors & readers alike voted AVR as the best solution for developing Web & Windows applications. See why AVR continues to win all of the industry awards. Download your FREE trial of ASNA Visual RPG (AVR) and get started with the included "Smarties" tutorial. Visit the ASNA Web site today: www.asna.com/downloads.asp Sponsored By KEY INFORMATION SYSTEMS NO MORE DOWNTIME is not only a reality on OS/400 and UNIX, but on Windows Server and Linux, too. KEY provides TOTAL High Availability across your entire enterprise. Coming Events include a FREE LUNCH on May 8 in Glendale and FREE BREAKFAST on May 16 and 17 in Phoenix (RSVP is required - click the date you'd like to attend and complete the form). Click here to visit our Website and learn more about Key Information Systems. Microsoft Makes Some Interesting Middleware Announcements by Timothy Prickett Morgan At the Network+Interop trade show in Las Vegas last week, Microsoft made a whole slew of announcements that ranged across its product lines. None of them were particularly related to the show, but the PR departments of IT vendors often use big trade shows as an excuse to clear their desks. Microsoft put out lots of releases last week, trumpeting .NET and Active Directory, but the interesting announcements were enhanced integration software for Unix, an accelerator for building SQL Server-based data warehouses, and an integrated portal/content manager for Windows. READ MORE > Microsoft Calls Final Witness in Antitrust Case by Alex Woodie Microsoft called its eighteenth and final witness last week in the appeal of its antitrust lawsuit, and the nine states that are dissenting a settlement put forth by the Justice Department and nine other states involved in the suit declined to call additional rebuttal witnesses to the stand. These two moves mark an end of testimony in the case, which is the second that Microsoft has faced for alleged anticompetitive acts committed in the computer marketplace. Now the fate of Microsoft rests with U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who will rule on the penalties Microsoft will face after having been declared a monopolist. READ MORE > Sponsored By ACUCORP Acucorp is a leading developer of application extension solutions running on over 600 platforms such as Linux. These extend5 solutions include a powerful ANSI COBOL compiler, an integrated development environment, web deployment technology, seamless interfaces to RDBMS, COBOL-based GUI development, distributed processing and client/server technology. For more information, visit www.acucorp.com. IBM Tops Oracle, Microsoft in Database Market Share War by Alex Woodie Gartner's Dataquest unit released its study of the 2001 database management systems market last week, and the results are more positive for IBM than they are for the industry as a whole. According to Gartner Dataquest's numbers, IBM increased its share of the database market from 33.7 percent to 34.7 percent, topping rival database vendor Oracle, whose market share dropped from 34.1 percent in 2000 to 32 percent in 2001. READ MORE> MAPICS Announces First ERP for iSeries Linux by Alex Woodie MAPICS scored a first among iSeries ERP vendors last week when it announced that its enterprise suite of software for manufacturers now runs on iSeries Linux. While the announcement thrust the Atlanta, Georgia-based, software company ahead of its competitors in the movement toward open-source software and Linux, MAPICS insists that its Linux move is not about radically altering how software is shaped and distributed, but about giving customers as much choice as possible. READ MORE> Web Application Server Vendors in a War of Attrition by Dan Burger Right at the heart of the e-business applications infrastructure, regardless of the company, is the Web application server. It is perhaps the most critical of all components in devising an e-business strategy. Why? Because in the future most custom and packaged applications will run on the application server. The vendors who compete in this $3 billion market--including IBM, BEA Systems, Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, and Sybase--are scratching and clawing for each customer that they can capture. READ MORE> Mad Dog 21/21: Hieronymus Bosh by Hesh Wiener IBM once tried to combine all of its midrange computers into one. The single machine that would replace all IBM midrange products of the early 1980s was called Fort Knox. Fort Knox, had it been successfully built, would have absorbed System/3 and its children, System/32 and System/36. It would have supplanted System/38 and its eventual descendants, the AS/400 and iSeries. READ MORE> Subscription Information To unsubscribe, change your email address, or sign up for any of Midrange Server's free e-newsletters, visit www.midrangeserver.com/sub/subscribe.html This page is best viewed at 800x600 with Netscape or IE browsers 4 or higher.   Copyright � 1996-2002 Midrange Server, Inc. All Rights Reserved. THIS ISSUE SPONSORED BY: ASNA Key Information Systems Acucorp BACK ISSUES TABLE OF CONTENTS Microsoft Makes Some Interesting Middleware Announcements Microsoft Calls Final Witness in Antitrust Case IBM Tops Oracle, Microsoft in Database Market Share War MAPICS Announces First ERP for iSeries Linux Web Application Server Vendors in a War of Attrition Mad Dog 21/21: Hieronymus Bosh Reader Feedback and Insights Editor Timothy Prickett Morgan Managing Editor Mari Barrett Conributing Editors: Dan Burger Sin�ad Carew Joe Hertvik Kristin Palitza Timothy Prickett Morgan Contact the Editors Do you have a gripe, inside dope or an opinion? Email the editors: [EMAIL PROTECTED]