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Published by Search390.com   March 25, 2004 >> Receive this e-mail as text   >> About this e-mail  ISSUE SPONSORED BY: >>  Data Center Futures: Apply for your free attendance today  Today's Highlights   >>  LEAD STORY:  Shai Agassi sizes up the competition >>  NEWS:  IBM WebSphere interoperable with SAP NetWeaver '04 >>  FEATURED TOPIC:  The IT career expert >>  THE MISSING LINK:  Love line dials up romance  News and Top Stories   LEAD STORY Shai Agassi sizes up the competition  (SearchSAP.com) In part two of our interview with SAP executive board member Shai Agassi, he sounds off on the competition, from IBM to Siebel. More on this topic: >  SAP customers at upgrade crossroads SPONSORED BY: Data Center Futures - June 4-6, 2003, Chicago Key Gartner research reports revealed Register now for your free attendance to the Data Center Futures conference and hear Carl Claunch, VP and Director of Research, Gartner, discuss the current and future roles of the data center. Session highlights include an in-depth review of such recent Gartner reports as "CIO Alert: 2003 Predictions of Mainframe Vendors' Actions in the United States." Don't miss your chance to hear breaking research and expert predictions. Apply for your free attendance today. NEWS Novell inks Linux deal for IBM servers (CNET) As part of the new arrangement, IBM may directly load Novell's SuSE Linux software onto its blade servers and all members of its four server lines. Currently, customers may pay for SuSE Linux through IBM, which reorders it from SuSE. NEWS Web services could flourish with open source Java (SearchWebServices.com) Experts laud the potential innovation an open source Java distribution would bring, and how it might accelerate enterprise use of Web services. DAILY HEADLINES All headlines, including those below, are available from our news page.   >  EDI maintains enterprise relevance   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 professionals. Read our IT career expert tips today. >>  View previous Featured Topics. SEARCH390.COM READER SURVEY Take our Poll Are your mainframes Web-enabled? THE MISSING LINK Love line dials up romance If you're looking for love in all the wrong places, bar yourself from singles bars and put down the personals. A new service will soon shoot Cupid's arrow straight through your cell phone. (And they promise it won't hurt your ear.) Here's the 411: The lonely hearted will store their stats in their mobile phones, along with info about what they most want in a mate. If a potential match should happen to pass by, their phones will call each other. You won't know who's on the other end of the call -- a smooth operator or someone with a lot of hang-ups. (Reuters)   Contact Us   SITE EDITOR Mark Brunelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send me your site feedback. NEWS EDITOR Kate Evans-Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send me your press releases and product announcements. ASSISTANT SITE EDITOR Maryann Tripp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send me your favorite mainframe white papers and links. 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=478843 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.