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June 13, 2002
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IN THIS ISSUE | Today's Highlights
1. TOP STORIES
- Lead story: IBM boasts of mainframe sales
- IBM eyes paperless insurance claims
- Storage vendors call for truce in pricing war
- Tivoli upgrade adds support for Linux, Unix
2. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS AND LINKS
- Live Expert Q&A Webcast: XML Security Standards
- Poll: Will layoffs at IBM affect your mainframe shop?
- Expert advice: Any services to help re-evaluate software needs?
- Share your 390 tip and win!
- The Missing Link: Top 10 laptop lummoxes
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LEAD STORY
IBM BOASTS OF MAINFRAME SALES | CNET
IBM is using recent sales of its new lower-end z800 mainframes to
show that Sun is failing to lure customers to its own products.
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IBM EYES PAPERLESS INSURANCE CLAIMS | News: Reuters
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield will be the first insurer to use a
new Internet-based program from IBM designed to lower costs for
health care firms. The service could save an estimated 35% to 40% of
the $250 billion or more annually spent pushing paper, IBM said.
STORAGE VENDORS CALL FOR TRUCE IN PRICING WAR | News: vnunet
Analysts say storage hardware prices won't drop as fast as they have
in the past. Hardware prices have fallen by over 50% in the last
year, but now they're falling back to around 35%, especially in the
sales of 3TB or more of storage. Upshot: The fierce competition
between IBM, EMC and HDS is driving a more 'traditional' decline.
TIVOLI UPGRADE ADDS SUPPORT FOR LINUX, UNIX | News: eWEEK
IBM said it has enhanced capabilities for its Tivoli security
software, Access Manager for Operating Systems, giving further
support for Linux and Unix variants. The Tivoli Risk Manager is also
getting an upgrade, which includes new network, host and Web
intrusion-detection sensors for Linux running on zSeries machines.
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LIVE EXPERT Q&A WEBCAST | XML Security Standards
TOPIC: XML Security Standards: XML Signature, XML Encryption, XKMS
WHEN: Wednesday, June 19 at 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 GMT)
SPEAKER: Blake Dournaee, author of "XML Security"
Learn about XML security, including what an XML Signature is and how
it differs from a traditional digital signature, and understand the
need for XML Encryption as well as the motivation behind XKMS. Join
Search390 and Blake Dournaee on Wednesday, June 19, for answers to
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TAKE OUR POLL | Search390
Do you expect the layoffs at IBM to affect your mainframe shop?
>> CLICK to post your response: http://search390.techtarget.com/poll
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ANY SERVICES TO HELP RE-EVALUATE SOFTWARE NEEDS? | Mark Zelden
Dear Ask the Expert,
I work in an OS/390 shop and our software needs to be re-evaluated
periodically. How can I find software that competes with the products
we currently have? Is this information available on the Internet? Are
there firms that provide a service such as this?
>> CLICK for Mark's response:
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THE MISSING LINK | Top 10 laptop lummoxes
Computers just can't hack it sometimes. A British insurance company
has named the world's premier computer klutzes. These 10 laptop
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