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IN THIS ISSUE | Today's Highlights 1. TOP STORIES - Featured Topic: Web services - Fujitsu offers new servers and faster chips - Linux heavies play version name game - Bugbear worm still making tracks on network shares - IBM gives post-merger details 2. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS AND LINKS - Discussion: Can SMTP be used to send attachments? - Search390.com research: New white papers section - Poll: Will you be expanding your current IT staff? - User experience: Share your story and win! - The Missing Link: Web site to cash in on hunger for Hannibal __________________________________________________________________ SPONSORED BY: Networking Decisions SHARE NETWORKING SUCCESS STORIES AND LESSONS LEARNED What network management strategies are working today? Is VoIP really ready for primetime? How can wireless save you money down the road? What's the inside scoop on enhanced 802.11 performance and security? Here's your chance to find out. Join a senior-level audience of your peers for 3 days of key interaction with today's top network managers, independent experts, renown industry analysts and top CEOs all in the same place at the same time -- the free Networking Decisions conference in Chicago, Oct. 16-18. Don't miss out. http://searchNetworking.com/r/0,,4727,00.htm?NetworkingDecisions __________________________________________________________________ LEAD STORY SEARCH390.COM FEATURED TOPIC | Web services If you're Web-enabling legacy applications, chances are you're using Web services such as (SOAP/XML/WSDL). But do you know just how Web services will impact your organization? Learn more about Web services and the mainframe in this week's Featured Topic. For the full Featured Topic, click: http://search390.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid10_gci853460,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= OTHER HEADLINES The headlines below and others are available on our news page. >> Full Stories: http://www.search390.com/news/ FUJITSU OFFERS NEW SERVERS AND FASTER CHIPS | News: cw360 Fujitsu Technology Solutions (FTS) will revamp the midrange of its Unix server line this year and introduce faster processors for all of its systems by 2003. The faster chips will include technology called Hardware Instruction Retry that has been used by Fujitsu on mainframe class systems. This technology helps correct errors caused by outside interference from factors such as sunspots and alpha particles. LINUX HEAVIES PLAY VERSION NAME GAME | News: CNET Do the new features in the next version of Linux warrant a minor number change or the grander designation of 3.0? The debate is on. BUGBEAR WORM STILL MAKING TRACKS | News: SearchSecurity.com MessageLabs and other antivirus experts report that the Bugbear worm has spread to three times as many computers as were infected Tuesday. The worm, which spreads via e-mail and network shares, installs a keystroke-logging program and opens a back door for future bedlam. http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci854432,00.html IBM GIVES POST-MERGER DETAILS | News: CRN IBM said that some 30,000 PwC Consulting employees, in addition to 30,000 IBM staffers -- many from the former Business Innovation Services unit within IGS -- make up the core of a new unit called Business Consulting Services (BCS). The headlines above and others are available on our news page. >> Full Stories: http://www.search390.com/news/ ___________________________________________________________________ ::::::::: DON'T MISS THESE IMPORTANT MESSAGES AND LINKS ::::::::: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SEARCH390.COM DISCUSSION FORUMS | Developer Search390.com user "PaulT" posted the following in the Developer forum and has received a thread of responses: "We currently use SMTP from z/OS via batch to send messages to relevant parties. However, I have a request to send a file as an attachment. Can this be done using SMTP and, if so, what JCL statements do we need to add/change?" To read the response from the Search390.com community or to post some advice of your own, join this discussion: http://search390.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.ee83ff7/595 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= NEW WHITE PAPERS SECTION | Search390.com Looking for technical information and how-to's? Visit Search390.com's new white papers section for research in ten different categories, including database management, storage, Web services and operating systems. Download a white paper today. http://search390.techtarget.com/whitepapers/0,,sid10,00.html FYI: Each week, we'll be adding new papers to the site, so be on the lookout. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= TAKE OUR POLL | Search390.com Will you be expanding your current IT staff within the next six months? >> CLICK to post your response: http://search390.techtarget.com/poll =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= USER EXPERIENCE | Share your story and win! Help build the new User Experience section on Search390.com. Find out how to use your greatest IT triumphs to help your fellow mainframers -- and win a prize at the same time! >> CLICK for more information: http://search390.techtarget.com/content/0,290959,sid10_gci852128,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= THE MISSING LINK | Web site to cash in on hunger for Hannibal How'd you like a chance encounter with Hannibal Lecter? 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