Midrange Server Windows & Linux Edition, for August 14, 2002

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Windows & Linux Edition Volume 1, Number 26 -- August 14, 2002

In This Issue Bill's, Andy's, and Linus' Enterprise Adventure, Every Week View this issue online at http://www.midrangeserver.com/mid/mid081402.html Sponsored By ASNA Are you using J.D. Edwards? BPCS? MAPICS? Do you need additional functionality or need to get that data to the Web? Then ASNA Visual RPG is your answer! Download your FREE copy of ASNA Visual RPG and call ASNA for more details on enhancing your J.D. Edwards, BPCS and MAPICS packages. Download your FREE trial of award-winning ASNA Visual RPG today: http://www.asna.com/downloads.asp! 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. Sun, IBM Announce New Linux Servers at LinuxWorld by Alex Woodie New Intel-based Linux servers were announced by Sun Microsystems and IBM at LinuxWorld this week, as the two server rivals jostled for position at the low-end of the market for Linux servers. IBM also sought to capitalize on Sun's late entry into the Linux server market by announcing a new program to migrate customers' UNIX applications running on Sun's Sparc servers to Linux running on IBM hardware. READ MORE > Dell Uses Red Hat, Oracle to Push Linux Against Unix by Timothy Prickett Morgan There are very few top-tier server vendors that do not have their own Unix operating systems. Unisys sells proprietary mainframes and is the staunchest supporter of Microsoft's Windows Datacenter Server, which is geared for its 32-way ES7000 enterprise servers. Dell doesn't have such a big box or its own Unix, but it has thrown its weight behind Linux as a commercial server OS, as it demonstrated at the LinuxWorld show held this week in San Francisco. READ MORE > Microsoft Puts Out .NET Framework SP2 by Timothy Prickett Morgan If you've been mucking around with Microsoft's .NET Framework, you'll be pleased to find out that the company has just released Service Pack 2 for the framework. The .NET Framework runs on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows XP and is intended to give those operating systems some of the functionality that will be embedded in the future Windows .NET operating systems. At this point, it is a more a means for developers to experiment with Web services than an actual product. READ MORE > IBM Leans on Business Partner Channel to Push Server Sales by Timothy Prickett Morgan If one thing has been consistent about IBM's server strategy over the past decade, it's that it wants to drive as many server shipments as possible through its business partner channel and derive as much revenue as it can from that channel. The effect of this channel-oriented sales approach is that more and more customers have a third party, not IBM, as their main IBM contact, and this is changing their relationship with Big Blue. READ MORE > Reader Feedback and Insights We value your feedback and your insights into the OS/400 market. Feel free to drop us a letter to the editor and we will post them in a reader feedback column associated with this newsletter. READ MORE > Subscription Information: To unsubscribe, change your email address, or sign up for any of Midrange Server's free e-newsletters, visit http://www.midrangeserver.com/sub/subscribe.html This page is best viewed at 800x600 with Netscape or IE browsers 4 or higher.

THIS ISSUE SPONSORED BY: ASNA Acucorp BACK ISSUES TABLE OF CONTENTS Sun, IBM Announce New Linux Servers at LinuxWorld Dell Uses Red Hat, Oracle to Push Linux Against Unix Microsoft Puts Out .NET Framework SP2 IBM Leans on Business Partner Channel to Push Server Sales Editor Timothy Prickett Morgan Managing Editor Mari Barrett Contributing Editors: Dan Burger Joe Hertvik Shannon O'Donnell Victor Rozek Hesh Wiener Alex Woodie Contact the Editors Do you have a gripe, inside dope or an opinion? Email the editors: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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