======================================================= SEARCH390 NEWS ROUNDUP May 3, 2001 More headlines at: http://search390.techtarget.com/news/0,289141,sid10,00.html ========================================================= ========================================================= What do you like? Networks? Computer Games? Downloads? How about Free Stuff? Search390.com can get you FREE info on the topics that interest you most - and there are so many to choose from! We'll find related news, information and special offers and deliver them directly to your e-mailbox, all at no charge! Sign up here today http://search390.techtarget.com/postmasterDirect/ ================================================== LEAD STORY: "Linux breaks into banking industry" One of Venezuela's largest banks has dumped its 30 Windows NT servers for one IBM mainframe. The move, part of a larger server consolidation effort, will also eventually move apps running on Sun and Hewlett-Packard servers onto an S/390. SOURCE: search390 http://search390.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid10_gci549572,00.html For more information, check out these search390 Best Web Links on Linux at: http://search390.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid10_tax1526,00.html Or, check out this search390 news item "Save a buck or two--use a mainframe" at: http://search390.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,,sid10_gci533953,00.html =============================== Search390 DISCUSSION FORUMS =============================== What are your thoughts about Linux on the mainframe? Share them with your peers in our Operating Systems forum. http://search390.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?50@@.ee83ff6 ================================= ASK THE EXPERTS ================================= If you have a question for Jan Lahmann, our Linux on S/390 expert, go to: http://search390.techtarget.com/ateQuestion/0,289624,sid10_tax285124,00.html ======================================================== TODAY'S OTHER S/390 AND INDUSTRY NEWS ======================================================== [1] Quick Takes: Hot on its trail [2] Programmer shortage threatens mainframe future [3] Unisys adjusts to life without Compaq [4] XML gets nod from Net standards group [5] IBM further integrates Ariba products into WebSphere, MQSeries [1] "Quick Takes: Hot on its trail" William Data products in mainframe SystemPacs; Bristol on the trail with eSleuth; Level 8 out with new Java developer tool; INRANGE and IBM expand fibre deal; and WebSphere takes home the statues. SOURCE: search390 http://search390.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid10_gci549587,00.html [2] "Programmer shortage threatens mainframe future" Despite the mainframe's tenacity, there looms a big question mark regarding its future. While new technology hasn't been able to make mainframes obsolete, the shortage of skilled people just might. SOURCE: Software Magazine http://www.softwaremag.com/archive/2001apr/CutterConsortium.html [3] "Unisys adjusts to life without Compaq" Compaq may have dumped Unisys but the mainframe maker is going to take advantage of the snub and go after Compaq's accounts. The company is being forced to revise its plan to have more than half of the 2002 server revenue come from sales partners. SOURCE: CNET http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5788752.html?tag=prntfr [4] "XML gets nod from Net standards group" An Internet standards group has approved a new technology that it hopes will greatly improve the way businesses exchange information over the Web. The World Wide Web Consortium announced Tuesday that it has approved a new Web standard, called XML schemas that make it easier to develop common vocabularies, so companies can communicate and exchange data. SOURCE: CNET http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5799704.html [5] "IBM further integrates Ariba products into WebSphere, MQSeriesC" After suffering through an April highlighted by a slew of layoffs and lower-than-expected second-quarter revenue, Mountain View Calif.-based Ariba is looking to start anew in May. And it did so by announcing Tuesday that it had expanded a previous alliance with IBM. SOURCE: Midrange Systems http://www.midrangesystems.com/breaknewsdisp.asp?ID=4458 ========================================================= Take Our Poll: What new Web technology do you see as the most useful for a mainframe application programmer to learn? Let us know what you think at www.search390.com/poll ========================================================= ========================================================= BEST WEB LINKS ========================================================= [1] "Tips and techniques for running a successful OS/390 disaster recovery test" How to recover when disaster strikes? Plan ahead! Here is some top-notch advice on disaster recovery planning for OS/390, including reasons for investing in disaster recovery testing, steps to take, the role of ICF catalogs, and pitfalls to avoid. SOURCE: Enterprise Systems http://www.esj.com/article.asp?ID=970092509AM [2] "Distributed object transactions" The increased complexity of applications requires sophisticated transaction coordinators called Transaction-Processing (TP) monitors (for example, IBM's CICS in the mid-to-late 1970s.) Over time, the types of transactions that applications required also became more complex, requiring distributed architectures as well as object-oriented and complex database technologies as implementation platforms. Your distributed object applications therefore need distributed object transaction control. The article concludes with a helpful glossary of distributed object transaction terms. SOURCE: Software Development Magazine http://www.sdmagazine.com/articles/2000/0007/0007j/0007j.htm =================================== TAKE OUR NEW SURVEY =================================== Don't miss out on your chance to be part of an extensive survey being conducted by search390.com and a handful of other techtarget.com sites. Here's your chance to weigh in on what platform or platforms your company uses to run mission-critical applications. Also, tell us what your ideal network would be and what you would do if you could make all of the technology decisions for your company. 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