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Published by Search390.com   March 09, 2004 >> Receive this e-mail as text   >> About this e-mail  ISSUE SPONSORED BY: >>  Xbridge Systems: Direct Access To Mainframe Data  Today's Highlights   >>  LEAD STORY:  Face-off: IBM's on-demand computing >>  NEWS:  IBM links Tivoli, on-demand software for SAN management >>  FEATURED TOPIC:  The IT career expert >>  THE MISSING LINK:  Cop pays stiff price for camera phone snapshots  News and Top Stories   LEAD STORY Face-off: IBM's on-demand computing  (Search390.com) Utopia or just a computing pipe dream? Our editors debate the pros and cons of IBM's on-demand computing initiative. More on this topic: >  Face-off: SCO vs. IBM >  Face-off: Offshore outsourcing SPONSORED BY: Xbridge Systems Free White Paper - Direct Access To Mainframe Data Learn how the Kansas Department of Transportation was able access VSAM and DB2 tables through a web form in a fraction of the cost and time of their data analytics product. Learn how their partnership with Xbridge increased user productivity 20% and saved them $200,000 in the first year. Click here to receive your FREE Kansas Department of Transportation Case Study. NEWS IBM links Tivoli, on-demand software for SAN management (SearchStorage.com) IBM has combined technologies from its Tivoli software and on-demand computing product lines with a new device manager to tackle heterogeneous storage management. DAILY HEADLINES All headlines, including those below, are available from our news page.   >  Meta: Outsourcing laws still a long way off (SearchCIO.com)   >  IBM exec suggest Java, Linux bundle (LinuxWorld)   >  IBM plans blade servers for telcos (CNET)   VIEW ALL NEWS AND TOP STORIES  Announcements & Links   FEATURED TOPIC The IT career expert Stay current on the skills you'll need to remain competitive. Find out about the latest trends and challenges facing IT prosfessionals. Read our IT career expert tips today. >>  Pros vs. cons of independent consulting >>  Time management in a crazed IT department TAKE OUR POLL Software costs too high? Have you ever given serious consideration to dumping your mainframe because the software licensing costs were too high? >>  News: Software upgrade costs irk mainframe users THE MISSING LINK Cop pays stiff price for camera phone snapshots Camera phones -- you don't even have to be alive for one of these gadgets to invade your space. A policeman in England took his camera phone into a hospital mortuary (he was there as part of a training course) and took snapshots of two corpses, as if he were on holiday with his family. Hey, at least the flash didn't make them blink! His superiors were not amused. They deleted the morbid moments and promptly canned the cop. His boss called it an act of "crass stupidity." Now that's candid. (The Register)   Contact Us   SITE EDITOR Mark Brunelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send me your feedback on the site. NEWS EDITOR Kate Evans-Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send me your product announcements and story ideas. ASSISTANT SITE EDITOR Maryann Tripp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send me your favorite mainframe Web links and white papers. DIRECTOR OF SITE SALES Gabrielle DeRussy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sponsor this or any other TechTarget newsletter. A B O U T   T H I S   N E W S L E T T E R Contact us: Search390 MemberServices 117 Kendrick Street, Suite 800 Needham, MA 02494 This e-newsletter is published by Search390.com, a targeted Web site from TechTarget, the most targeted IT media and events company. TechTarget offers magazines, Web sites, e-newsletters, Webcasts and conferences for enterprise IT professionals. Copyright 2004 TechTarget. All rights reserved. To unsubscribe from "Today's News": Go to unsubscribe: http://search390.techtarget.com/unsubscribe?track=NL-170&ad=477976 Please note, unsubscribe requests may take up to 24 hours to process; you may receive additional mailings during that time. A confirmation e-mail will be sent when your request has been successfully processed.