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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS AND LINKS - Live Event: A Mainframe is a Terrible Thing to Waste - Tip: Beware the IDEs of, err, WebSphere? - Special Offer: Win a Microsoft Xbox! - Book: WebSphere V3.5 Handbook, 1/e - Poll: What skills do you need to be competitive? - The Missing Link: A Web hoax pokes fun at M.I.T.'s Media Lab =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= LEAD STORY OPENWORLD: ELLISON TURNS BIG BLUE RED | News: searchDatabase If you can't say anything nice, you must be Larry Ellison talking about IBM. The man who claims his company's software is "unbreakable" is unshakable when it comes to his faith in Oracle, and his disgust for Big Blue. 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Learn how to harness the power of your mainframe for better business intelligence by joining nationally renowned data warehouse expert Doug Laney of META Group, and key members of the Ascential Software team for an enlightening, in-depth examination of the new software technologies and methods for integrating mainframe data into data warehouses and enterprise applications. ** Plus everyone who attends the event will have an opportunity to download the FREE white paper, "DataStage XE/390: The Answer to Data Integration for Complex Environments." http://search390.techtarget.com/onlineEvents/0,289675,sid10,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= BEWARE THE IDEs OF, ERR, WEBSPHERE? | Tip: By Jim Keohane Have you played with IBM's Visual Age Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) for Java? How about VAJ's incremental compiling? What do you think of the object-based, rather than file based, orientation? Well, it's all being superceded by WebSphere Studio WorkBench on top of the open-source Eclipse IDE. >>CLICK for the Full Tip: http://www.search390.com/tip/1,289483,sid10_gci784724,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= WIN A MICROSOFT XBOX! | search390 Special Offer Here's your chance to win a Microsoft Xbox, the hottest video game system of this holiday season. 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KEY TOPICS: Successfully install and configure WebSphere V3.5; then use WebSphere to build applications that incorporate JavaServer Pages, servlets, Enterprise JavaBeans, JDBC, XML, and other powerful Web technologies. http://www.digitalguru.com/DigitalGuru/product_detail.asp?catalog_name=Books&category_name=&product_id=0130416568&partner_id=54 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= WHAT SKILLS DO YOU NEED TO BE COMPETITIVE? | search390 Poll As a 390 professional, what skill do you feel you most need to acquire or improve upon to remain competitive in the coming year? >>CLICK to post your response... http://www.search390.com/poll =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= THE MISSING LINK | A Web hoax pokes fun at M.I.T.'s Media Lab It's a case of turning the tables on M.I.T. Remember those wacky Massachusetts Institute of Technology students who pull high-profile pranks? Well, now the joke is on the jokesters at the institute's offbeat Media Laboratory. A student there has launched a parody Web site that describes a lab obsessed with the effects technology has on -- ready? -- eroticism! Apparently more than a few techies are enjoying a good laugh. The specious site is so popular it's slowing down the network. (Free registration to this site is required.) Source: The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/03/technology/03EROS.html ____________________________________________________________________ ******************* SEARCH390 CONTACTS *************************** BJ RAMA, Site Editor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Send in your original articles and best practices. CATHERINE DOSS, Assistant Editor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Send in your White Papers and favorite Web sites. JACK PICKELL, News Editor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Send in your news, press releases and product announcements. 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