======================================================= SEARCH390 NEWS ROUNDUP August 9, 2001 More headlines at: http://search390.techtarget.com/news/0,289141,sid10,00.html ========================================================= SPONSORED BY: Storage Decisions 2001 ========================================================= Storage Decisions 2001 brings together the top storage industry analysts and expert technologists to give you specific how-to advice to set storage strategy, make key decisions and manage storage effectively. This exclusive conference is FREE to those who qualify. Apply today at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;3177034;5058249;j?http://www.StorageDecisions2001.com ======================================================== LEAD STORY: "Managing storage effectively" Are you managing your storage effectively? Do you have questions about storage management? We've put together a collection of resources to help, including information about the upcoming Storage Decisions 2001 conference." SOURCE: search390 http://search390.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid10_gci758921,00.html ======================================================== TODAY'S OTHER S/390 AND INDUSTRY NEWS ======================================================== [1] Computer Associates' Wang confident of retaining control [2] New virus travels in PDF files [3] Quick Takes: Meta Directory for S/390 data [1] "Computer Associates' Wang confident of retaining control" Computer Associates founder and chairman Charles Wang said he is confident that his management team will retain control of the world's fourth largest software maker. Texas billionaire Sam Wyly is seeking to have shareholders vote in a new board of directors (with him as chairman) that would hire a new management team. "Mr. Sam Wyly owns 100 shares of CA" out of 620 million shares, Wang said. "He has the right to propose a new board of directors." SOURCE: Reuters http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2802437,00.html [2] "New virus travels in PDF files" There is good news and bad news on the computer virus front. The bad news is there is a virus known as "Peachy" that uses Adobe's popular PDF file format to spread. The good news is that the virus only spreads with Adobe's Acrobat, not through the free readers available for download all around the Web. Peachy exploits an Acrobat feature that embeds files within a PDF but can only be opened using Acrobat. SOURCE: CNET http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6808673.html?tag=ch_mh [3] "Quick Takes: Meta Directory for S/390 data" Fischer International Systems Corp. and Siemens AG partnering to develop and distribute a Meta Directory product for S/390 data; Software AG, Inc. unveils Tamino XML Server version 2.3; Extreme Networks, Inc. and IBM jointly completed interoperability testing of Extreme Networks' BlackDiamond Gigabit Ethernet switch. SOURCE: search390 http://search390.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid10_gci760048,00.html ======================================================== USERS NEED YOUR HELP! ======================================================== Have you visited our discussion forums lately? User "smokinmike has posted this question: "Does anyone know how to display a db2 timestamp in VB6?" on our Developer forum. Can yo help? Click on http://search390.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?50@@.ee83ff7 to post a response or pose your own question to your peers. Also, on our Operating Systems forum, "steveg4432" wants to know the following: "Which Linux distribution is the preferred (favorite)?" Post your opinion at http://search390.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?50@@.ee83ff6 ======================================================== Take Our search390 Poll: ======================================================== Have you experienced any security breeches using Linux? Let us know at http://www.search390.com/poll ========================================================= ========================================================== BEST WEB LINKS ========================================================= [1] "Web-to-host: reducing the total cost of ownership" This white paper written by the Tolly Group compares the cost of traditional emulation solutions for accessing S/390 and AS/400 with emerging thin-client Web-to-host solutions. The paper finds that Web-to-host can reduce total cost of ownership by as much as 60 percent. Even if you disagree with the findings, read this for the good, plain-language explanations of terms like host access, terminal emulation, thick client and thin client. SOURCE: Tolly Group http://data.bitpipe.com/data/detail?id=976936221_377&type=RES&x=962635520 [2] "Spotting the dead-end job: a primer" Is the "new development" project you're considering going to be "developing" a fix for a fifteen-year-old legacy system that uses a technology with which you are all too familiar? If so, you are probably being hired for those legacy skills and are unlikely to get significant exposure to any new technology. Remind yourself that few companies will train an outsider in a cutting-edge tool when proven performers within the company are also clamoring for this kind of training. 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You can soon get the answer straight from the horse's -- make that the DOG'S -- mouth. Inventors in Japan claim to have developed a high-tech canine translator. The gadget, called the Bow-lingual, can supposedly interpret a dog's barks and growls into human emotions. The Bow-lingual consists of a small microphone, attached to the dog's collar, that "reads" dog-speak by matching sounds to a set of pre-programmed wave patterns. There are plans to adapt the technology so that anxious owners, who are away from home, can be kept up to date with their dog's feelings delivered straight to their handset. SOURCE: BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1480000/1480010.stm ========================================================== 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]. 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