======================================================= SEARCH390 NEWS ROUNDUP June 19, 2001 More headlines at: http://search390.techtarget.com/news/0,289141,sid10,00.html ========================================================= SPONSORED BY: Landmark ========================================================= FREE Whitepaper! OS/390 UNIX Performance Problems? Get your copy of "Monitoring HFS Performance with DFSMS 1.5", at http://www.landmark.com/offers/USS/Whitepaper. Many OS/390 performance problems can be traced to poor decisions related to HFS datasets. This paper explains basic HFS concepts and suggests improvements for HFS performance. ========================================================= LEAD STORY: "Compaq goes on counter offensive against IBM in Linux clustering arena" IBM may be in the Linux spotlight, but Compaq is doing a little tap-dance to steal the show from Big Blue. The server and storage giant, which claimed to have owned 30% of Linux server revenues market share in 2000, is partnering with San Diego Supercomputer Center, Scientific Computing Associates and Scyld Computing Corp. to deliver Linux clustering to its ProLiant server line. SOURCE: CRN http://crn.com/Sections/BreakingNews/BreakingNews.asp?ArticleID=27457 For more information, check out these Best Web Links on Linux at http://search390.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid10_tax1526,00.html ============================= LET'S TALK ABOUT LINUX ============================= What do you think about Compaq's little tap-dance to steal the Linux show from Big Blue? Share your thoughts in our Sound Off and/or Operating Systems Forum. http://search390.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?[EMAIL PROTECTED]^0@/search390 Our Featured Expert this week is IBM's Jan Lahmann. He is our Linux on S/390 Expert and would love to share his thoughts on this issue with you. To ask Jan a question, go to http://search390.techtarget.com/ateQuestion/0,289624,sid10_tax285124,00.html FYI, Jan will be live in our OS Forum next Thurs, June 28, from 1pm to 3pm EDT to share his thoughts and answer your Linux on the mainframe questions. ======================================================== TODAY'S OTHER S/390 AND INDUSTRY NEWS ======================================================== [1] Oracle, Sun aim Java tools at Microsoft [2] Tech giants update e-commerce standard [3] Lotus lets developers test Web service waters [4] Ellison pops a price surprise at Oracle 9i launch [5] IBM looks to get SMART with DB2 7.2 [1] "Oracle, Sun aim Java tools at Microsoft" Sun and Oracle have joined forces in an attempt to convince Microsoft developers to support the Java programming language. The duo announced a set of new tools that will translate Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASPs) into Java Server Pages (JSPs) without forcing developers to rewrite their software code. Java is supported by Oracle, Sun, BEA Systems, IBM and others. SOURCE: CNET http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6313626.html [2] "Tech giants update e-commerce standard" Several computing giants, including IBM, have released the second version of a key Web standard launched in May that allows businesses to register with an Internet directory that will help companies advertise their services, so they can find one another and conduct transactions over the Web. The online yellow pages directory that UDDI provides is a key part of how "Web services" plans such as Microsoft .Net and Sun One will work together despite corporate differences. SOURCE: CNET http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6291678.html?tag=lh [3] "Lotus lets developers test Web service waters" Lotus will use its DevCon 2001 in Las Vegas to tear the shroud of mystery from Web services with a kit designed to let developers expose Web services on Lotus' collaboration and messaging products. Carl Kraenzel, Lotus spokesman, said the company plans to let developers know that the Lotus products and APIs they already have can be used right now and there is no need to wait, as with Microsoft's .Net initiative. Executives at DevCon also plan to outline how Lotus products fill out IBM's Web services vision. SOURCE: InfoWorld http://idg.net/ic_623644_1773_1-3921.html [4] "Ellison pops a price surprise at Oracle 9i launch" While announcing the general availability of his company's new Oracle 9i database, CEO Larry Ellison made a surprise declaration that he is changing Oracle's pricing structure to the same per-processor model that competitors such as IBM and Microsoft use for their database products. Let customers decide for themselves whose database is the best value, the outspoken executive said. SOURCE: searchDatabase http://searchdatabase.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid13_gci747740,00.html [5] "IBM looks to get SMART with DB2 7.2" Self-managing and resource tuning (SMART) features, deep integration with the WebSphere application server and "autonomic computing" technologies, lead the list of highlights IBM is pointing to in the newest release of its DB2 Universal Database. Jeff Jones, IBM's senior program manager of data management solutions, discusses DB2 7.2, IBM's strategy in the database market and the details of the Informix deal, in the first of a two-part question-and-answer interview with searchDatabase. SOURCE: searchDatabase http://searchdatabase.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid13_gci740063,00.html ====================================================== ======================================================== Take Our search390 Poll: What percentage of your storage is outsourced to SSPs? Let us know at http://www.search390.com/poll ========================================================= BEST WEB LINKS ========================================================= [1] "WebSphere translation server for multiplatforms" Specifically designed for enterprise use, this IBM product allows companies to leverage their existing Web infrastructure to provide content in nine languages. Based on IBM machine translation technology, this product is designed for scalability on multiple platforms. Download a demo from this site. SOURCE: IBM http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/enterprise/ep_8.html [2] "S/390 & AS/400 links" Eric Loriaux has gathered some of the top hardware links available on the net and puts them all here. Most of these links are geared toward S/390 and the AS/400 machines. Just click on A-Z and get connected with the sites you want. SOURCE: Loriuax http://www.loriaux.com/s390/hardware.html ========================================================== ========================================================= THE MISSING LINK ========================================================== A look at an off-the-wall story off the Web "The push to push women highers" Here is a test. Who is Bill Gates? Now, who is Carly Fiorina? If you could answer the first but not the second question, you are not alone. Despite being named the Most Powerful Woman in Business by Fortune magazine, only 12% of IT professionals recognize Hewlett-Packard's female CEO, compared with 98% who recognize Gates. A new survey by Roper Starch released by Deloitte & Touche, found few women are leading tech companies. Only one of 10 surveyed said the owner or CEO of their company was a woman. That is only 10%, compared to 17% in other industries. It makes those stodgy, old economy firms look positively enlightened. 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