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May 28, 2002
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IN THIS ISSUE | Today's Highlights
1. TOP STORIES
- Lead: ITAA's job stats doubted, questions about H1-B quotas
- Hospital finds scalable SQL solution
- IBM begins layoffs
- Giga predicts flat spending for year
- Damage report: Insider threats vs. cyberterrorists
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- Poll: What's your position on the H-1B work visa?
- Discussion: Can CICS retrieve data received by FTP?
- Tips Contest: Win a Samsung DVD-S221 DVD/MP3 player
- The Missing Link: Oops! True IT blooper #32: Do not delete!
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LEAD STORY
ITAA's job stats doubted, questions about H1-B quotas | Search390
Many U.S. IT workers are fuming over the high H1-B visa quotas and
point a finger at an association they claim misrepresents employment
stats for the benefit of the major league players it represents.
For the full story, click:
http://search390.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid10_gci826129,00.html
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OTHER HEADLINES
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HOSPITAL FINDS SCALABLE SQL SOLUTION | SearchWindowsManageability
Curtis Boyd needed to replace a 20 year-old mainframe system to
reduce report generation times from two weeks to one day. With a
little patience, and a lot of testing, SQL led to a successful data
migration.
http://searchwindowsmanageability.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid33_gci825280,00.html
IBM BEGINS LAYOFFS | CNET
IBM handed pink slips to about 1,000 employees Thursday -- 475 of
those in the company's storage group in San Jose, Calif. The cuts
affect employees at a number of locations including those in
Rochester, Minn., and Endicott, N.Y. More layoffs are expected and
some analysts predict a total of 8,000 to 9,000 employees to be let
go.
GIGA PREDICTS FLAT SPENDING FOR YEAR | Enterprise Storage Journal
Scaling back its predictions, analyst firm Giga Information Group
issued a report today suggesting flat spending in IT this year. Giga
initially predicted modest growth for the year.
DAMAGE REPORT: INSIDER THREATS VS. CYBERTERRORISTS | SearchSecurity
Gartner analysts explore the threat of cyberterrorism to the
enterprise and conclude that insider threats are more immediate and
damaging. Yet, one analyst said a cyberterror attack is a "when, not
if" question.
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci825536,00.html
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TAKE OUR POLL | Search390
What's your position on the H-1B work visa?
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SEARCH390 DISCUSSION FORUMS | Developer
Search390 member "wallyk52" recently posted this in the Developer
forum: "Is it possible to FTP data to the temporary or transient
storage queues? I'm looking for an easy way to have CICS retrieve
data FTP'd to a mainframe."
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join this discussion:
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THE MISSING LINK | Oops! True IT blooper #32: Do not delete!
When a novice IT worker took too much initiative, systems manager
Hector Araujo ended up in The Blooper Zone and his intern wound up in
hot water.
Source: SearchWindowsManagability
http://www.searchWindowsManageability.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid33_gci825351,00.html
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