======================================================= SEARCH390 NEWS ROUNDUP July 19, 2001 More headlines at: http://search390.techtarget.com/news/0,289141,sid10,00.html ========================================================= SPONSORED BY: Postmaster Direct ========================================================= Get free offers from reputable merchants for products that you are interested in. Pick from over 50 categories of interest, modify your profile at any time to suit your needs, and receive only the email that interests you when you subscribe today. Just click on the link below and get your account up and running: http://search390.techtarget.com/postmasterDirect/ ======================================================== LEAD STORY: "Web-enable a mainframe? Oui, Oui" More than 50,000 European distributors are reaping the benefits of French automotive tire giant Michelin's decision to Web-enable its mainframe. SOURCE: search390 http://search390.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid10_gci756251,00.html For more information, check out these Best Web Links at http://search390.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid10_tax1466,00.html Got questions about Web-enabling the mainframe? Then visit out our E-Business discussion forum. You can post a question and search through the various posts for answers. To go to the E-Business forum, or one of our other three forums, click here http://search390.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?[EMAIL PROTECTED]^0@/search390 If you happen to stop by the Developer Forum, see if you can answer this question from "CCoder." He/she posted the following: Anybody have more information on C/370 Debugger? Any problem in Install, etc. C/370 Debugger in CICS Environment. If you have information for "CCoder" post it here http://search390.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?[EMAIL PROTECTED]^[email protected] ======================================================== FEATURED TOPIC: COBOL or Java? ======================================================== Java has been heralded as the language of the future. So should you scrap all that COBOL code for Java? Well each is better suited for different applications, however, someone with skills in both would be a pretty hot commodity. http://search390.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid10_gci754959,00.html ======================================================== TODAY'S OTHER S/390 AND INDUSTRY NEWS ======================================================== [1] Services, ZzzSeries boost IBM figures [2] WebSphere tops SHARE education agenda [3] CA lights up storage management [4] Sun unveils new version of Enterprise JavaBeans [1] "Services, ZzzSeries boost IBM figures" IBM announced a second quarter profit of $2 billion on income of $21.6 billion. CEO Lou Gerstner claimed Big Blue had $16 billion of new services business and praised the performance of the zSeries (formerly S/390) mainframe and DB2. He pointed to weak demand for disk drives, PCs, and in the Tivoli division, however. SOURCE: The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/20480.html [2] "WebSphere tops SHARE education agenda" Next week's SHARE conference, being held in Minneapolis, Minn., is catering to the needs of the technical guru looking for more detailed information about WebSphere. But, the conference will also highlight sessions in software asset management, for attendees who worry less about bits and bytes and more about business issues. SOURCE: search390 http://search390.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid10_gci756068,00.html [3] "CA lights up storage management" Systems management software giant Computer Associates has consolidated its storage management software for Microsoft Windows NT/2000, Unix and mainframe platforms under one system with a common portal, branding it BrightStor. Executives said they're prepared to go head-to-head with distributed storage management market dominator Veritas Software, as well as other market leaders such as Hewlett-Packard. SOURCE: Interactive Week http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2784953,00.html [4] "Sun unveils new version of Enterprise JavaBeans" Sun's long-awaited next version of Enterprise JavaBeans has completed the approval process of the Java Community Process (JCP). Sun also released beta 2 of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), the de facto industry standard for building and deploying enterprise-scale Java applications. The new version of the EJB spec, EJB 2.0, is included in this beta 2 release of J2EE. SOURCE: CRN http://www.crn.com/Components/Search/Article.asp?ArticleID=28281 ======================================================== Take Our search390 Poll: ======================================================== Microsoft has been criticizing the General Public License open-source software model, saying that it undermines the commercial software sector and hurts innovation. What is your opinion of Microsoft's position? Let us know at http://www.search390.com/poll ========================================================= BEST WEB LINKS ========================================================= [1] "Move or improve?" What's a company to do, with 200-plus legacy applications, averaging 500 programs per application and a total of 60 million lines of code, mostly COBOL? This year everybody's priority is to get to e-commerce applications with a legacy backend. This excellent article examines invasive and noninvasive solutions and looks ahead to what happens when all the COBOL programmers vanish. SOURCE: Software Magazine http://www.softwaremag.com/archive/2000dec/MoveImprove.html [2] "S/390 SAN connectivity leadership" This IBM page offers graphic presentations of how ESCON and other technologies, such as FICON, can be used in a SAN environment. 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Suggestions for an optional Three Stooges package that sprays seltzer instead of water and then calls you a "knucklehead," have been dismissed. SOURCE: Reuters http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010718/sc/science_cars_dc_1.html ========================================================== Do you know of other good Web resources or sites that we can add to our growing Editor's Picks collection? Let us know! Send an e-mail to Site Editor BJ Rama at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. Please include the article's or site's URL. =========================================================== ======================================================== If you would like to sponsor this or any TechTarget newsletter, please contact Gabrielle DeRussy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================== If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter simply reply to this message with "REMOVE" in the subject line. 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