======================================================= SEARCH390 NEWS ROUNDUP July 3, 2001 More headlines at: http://search390.techtarget.com/news/0,289141,sid10,00.html ========================================================= SPONSORED BY: Postmaster Direct ========================================================= GET THE INFO YOU WANT TODAY What do YOU want in your e-mailbox? How about FREE info and offers about computers, networking, wireless devices, finance and lots more? Visit http://search390.techtarget.com/postmasterDirect/, choose the topics that interest you, and you'll get the e-mail you want. ========================================================= LEAD STORY: "Computer Associates attacks plan" In the midst of a proxy battle, the management of Computer Associates International has taken its case to its shareholders. The company sent a letter urging shareholders to support keeping the company intact with its current management. Texas billionaire Sam Wyly is trying to get control of the company and has said he wants to split the company into four units based on product areas. SOURCE: Bloomberg News http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/03/technology/03ASSO.html See this CRN story about CA suing the Texas billionaire behind the proxy battle: http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=27825 Or read this Reuters story about CA execs losing bonuses: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6449342.html?tag=cd_mh ================== CA FIGHTS BACK! ================== What do you think about billionaire Sam Wyly's plans to break up CA? Think CA's shareholders will keep the "CA family" together? Let us know! Post your thoughts and opinions in our Sound Off Discussion Forum. Check out the other CA-related posts while you're there. http://search390.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?50@@.ee83ff9 ======================================================== TODAY'S OTHER S/390 AND INDUSTRY NEWS ======================================================== [1] Linux standard eases programming [2] IBM cuts Low Rate Financing program rate [3] IBM to shed 1,000 consulting jobs [4] Tech future is said to brighten [1] "Linux standard eases programming" Running software on different Linux distributions may become easier thanks to a new Linux standard released by an industry group last week. The Free Standards Group's version 1.0 of the Linux Standard Base specification aims to make applications run on any flavor of Linux without tweaking. SOURCE: CNET http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6445478.html [2] "IBM cuts Low Rate Financing program rate" IBM's has reduced its financing rate to 5.3%, down from 5.5% for customers in its Low Rate Financing program. Not all customers qualify for the low rate -- it is only available to those with sterling credit ratings in North America, Argentina, Brazil and Chile. Still, most customers in the program obtain financing rates better than the 8.5% to 9% IBM typically charges, an IBM spokesperson said. SOURCE: InfoWorld http://iwsun4.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/07/02/010702hnibmrate.xml [3] "IBM to shed 1,000 consulting jobs" On Monday, IBM announced its cutting 1,000 consulting and service business jobs so employee skills better match customers' needs. Workers have 30 days to find another job in the company or will be terminated with severance. The cuts represent less than 1% of IBM Global Services workforce. SOURCE: CNET http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6442749.html [4] "Tech future is said to brighten" Cuts in corporate technology budgets may have bottomed out according to a new survey of chief information officers by CIO Magazine. Over the next 12 months, the executives plan to increase technology spending on average by 6.3%, found the survey, which will be released today. SOURCE: New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/02/technology/02POLL.html ======================================================== ======================================================== TIPS CONTEST WINNER! ======================================================== We've chosen a winner, and the winning tip for May/June is "Screening routine in advance of EBCDIC - ASCII conversions" by Mark Sherman. Congratulations Mark! Mark's tip was chosen according to the highest average rating per number of votes and a final review by our staff and panel of experts. Mark will take home a Palm Vx ultra slim handheld and be placed in our tips hall of fame. Great job Mark! To view Mark's tip, go to: http://search390.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid10_gci751383,00.html? Thanks to all of you who submitted tips. The second and third place tips are: "TRACE VERB for COBOL II and up," by Craig McDonough, and "DB2 with Easytrieve tips," by Paul Turpin. To view these tips, or any of search390's other tips, go to: http://search390.techtarget.com/tips/0,289484,sid10_tax1642,00.html July's tip of the month contest has just started! This month's prize is an awesome King T-Rex radio control dinotronic dinosaur chosen with all of you dinos in mind! To submit a tip, or to check out this month's prize and contest rules, click here: http://search390.techtarget.com/tipsPrize/0,289492,sid10_prz750651_cts750650,00.html ======================================================== Take Our search390 Poll: When it comes to Web-enabling the mainframe, what is your biggest concern? Let us know at http://www.search390.com/poll ========================================================= BEST WEB LINKS ========================================================= [1] " Mainframes are the future of ebusiness" IBMs first-ever public installation of a Linux-based eServer z900 mainframe happened on what this author refers to as "a mainframe virgin," Scandinavia's Telia.net. The improvements the new server will bring to Telia.net are a good example of why the future of ebusiness likely lays in mainframes. SOURCE: vnunet http://www.vnunet.com/Computinganalysis/1118246 [2] "Planet Tivoli: Security and the bottom line" The editors at searchSystemsManagement had an opportunity to sit in on a roundtable discussion featuring security vendors and analysts at Planet Tivoli North America 2001. They found that the importance of security must be elevated with an e-business because of its impact on revenue. SOURCE: searchSystemsManagement http://searchsystemsmanagement.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid20_gci549415,00.html ========================================================== ========================================================= THE MISSING LINK ========================================================== A look at an off-the-wall story off the Web "Tech-savvy teens swamp police with fake IDs" Boy, technology sure does make things easier! Gone are the days when teenagers had to rely on ingenuity and artwork to piece together their fake IDs. These days, there are actually Web sites that will do the work for them. Some sites offer templates or kits for those teenage do-it-yourselfers who still want to feel part of the process. Others will save the kids the hassle and will produce the doctored driver's licenses for them. And you wondered why President Bush's daughters asked for a new computer for Christmas! 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