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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS AND LINKS - Newsletter: Subscribe to Data Center Futures - Poll: Have you dealt with mainframe security issues? - Discussion: Talk about your mainframe questions and concerns - The Missing Link: A site that counts: 1880 U.S. census online __________________________________________________________________ SPONSORED BY: Xbridge Systems FREE WHITE PAPER Free your data from its mainframe jail with this "Mainframe Data Access" White Paper. Learn how to access valuable VSAM, QSAM, DB2 and IMS DB right on your desktop through popular applications like Excel, Word or your Internet browser. Click Here for your FREE White Paper: http://search390.com/r/0,,7001,00.htm?freewhitepaper __________________________________________________________________ LEAD STORY MAINFRAME CONTINUES TO TOP GARTNER OLTP LIST | News: SearchHP.com IBM's mainframe once again came out on top in Gartner's online transaction processing (OLTP)/database serving evaluation. Some servers, however, are starting to close the gap. For the full story, click: http://searchhp.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid6_gci859108,00.html FOR MORE INFORMATION Read these links on OLTP http://search390.techtarget.com/search/1,293876,sid10,00.html?h=true&query=OLTP =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= OTHER HEADLINES The headlines below and others are available on our news page. >> Full Stories: http://www.search390.com/news/ IBM CUTS FINANCE RATES TO LURE CUSTOMERS | News: Financial Times IBM said Monday it would cut financing costs for hardware to as low as 4.2%, from 5%. The computer giant also said it would offer a 90-day deferral period for all financing costs -- an open invitation for companies to spend on technology before the end of this year. The finance offering, dubbed "triple zero," emulates the zero-rate financing deals that have been needed to fuel automobile sales in the U.S. in recent months. IBM TO USE LINUX FOR 'BLUE GENE' SUPERCOMPUTER | News: CNET Linux will be the main operating system for IBM's upcoming family of "Blue Gene" supercomputers -- a major endorsement for the operating system and the open-source computing model it represents. These supercomputers, expected out by late 2005, will be able to perform a quadrillion calculations per second (one petaflop). LINUX TO DOMINATE ON SERVERS | News: InfoWorld A new report suggests that by the end of the decade, Linux will reign as the lead operating system. Proprietary Unix operating systems from HP, IBM and Sun will suffer as many businesses are drawn to the open source OS by the lower cost of operation and the increasing quality of service. NEXT LINUX DUE BY JUNE | News: ZDNet A new Linux kernel is expected out by early summer. The programming collaborative that issues these releases isn't known for its punctuality, but the project founder Linus Torvalds says other key developers have adopted a more structured approach for transforming the 2.5 "development" branch of the OS to the 2.6 version intended for real-world use. BMC SHARES FALL AS REVENUES DISAPPOINT | News: Reuters Shares of BMC Software dropped more than 6% percent on Friday, a day after the maker of mainframe and network management software posted quarterly profits but said sales of key software products declined. The headlines above and others are available on our news page. >> Full Stories: http://www.search390.com/news/ ___________________________________________________________________ SPONSORED BY: UltraQuest from Aonix Free Case Study See how Nabisco was able to save money and operate more efficiently using Web-based access to S/390 data. Aonix introduces UltraQuest Reporter, the new standard in Web-based access to S/390 data. 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Visit our discussion forums to start a discussion with the Search390.com community. >> CLICK for the discussion forums: http://search390.discussions.techtarget.com/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= THE MISSING LINK | A site that counts: 1880 U.S. census goes online If the past is your pastime, you'll need a crowbar to pry yourself away from http://www.familysearch.org/. That's where you'll find the 1880 U.S. census -- the first complete, searchable and free census to go online. You can get on there and find out what your ancestors were doing and where they were doing it long before you were a glimmer in their descendants' eyes. Volunteers with the Mormon church have been typing their tails off for 17 years to get all the information -- some 50 million entries -- loaded into computers. The site also has the British and Canadian censuses from 1881. 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