Today's News: IBM's trio of tools target SEC rules

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April 06, 2004 Published by  Search390.com Today's News IN THIS ISSUE: IBM broadens compliance offerings VMware Workstation 4.5 focuses on enterprise IBM wants court to ditch SCO claims Sun, Microsoft in Linux battle with IBM Webify your mainframe March goes out like a glitch for Wal-Mart IBM broadens compliance offerings [SearchCIO.com] IBM addresses federal regulation compliance with products that span its software portfolio, including Lotus and Tivoli. MORE INFO: Fast Guide to Regulatory Complicance VMware Workstation 4.5 focuses on enterprise [SearchEnterpriseLinux.com] Virtualization software enables developers and administrators to test applications on virtual machines before putting them into production. IBM wants court to ditch SCO claims [The Associated Press] IBM has asked a federal magistrate to throw out claims of copyright infringement by Utah's SCO Group in the battle over source code supporting the freely distributed Linux operating system. Sun, Microsoft in Linux battle with IBM [CNET] Both Microsoft and Sun are keenly aware of the challenges presented by Linux and the prospect of stepped-up competition from IBM. TOPICS: Hip hip hooray! IBM's premier mainframe turns 40 Forty years ago this week, IBM released the System 360 family of mainframes. The machines revolutionized both computing and how companies did business. Click here to see this Featured Topic on the anniversary. ASK THE EXPERTS: Yes, you can use IBM Assembler language to access DB2 data A reader asked our database management expert, Craig Mullins: "I need to create some extract programs to read a set of DB2 tables in our mainframe environment? I don't have time to learn COBOL but I have 18 years of experience with MVS Assembler. Is there a way to connect the two (DB2 and Assembler)?" Click here to see Craig's answer. WEBCASTS: Webify your mainframe Have you ever considered doing Web services on the mainframe but don't know where to start? View this Webcast with Search390.com site expert Jim Keohane. Learn how XML's is a good fit for legacy databases. Click here to access the Webcast. March goes out like a glitch for Wal-Mart [The Associated Press] Bentonville, we have a problem. If you charged up some stuff at Wal-Mart last Wednesday, sit down and then check your credit card bill. If you were charged twice or thrice for what you bought, join the club, and we don't mean Sam's Club. Thanks to a computer hardware glitch on March 31, more than 800,000 Wal-Mart customers nationwide were overbilled on their Visas and Mastercards. Talk about spastic plastic. Wal-Mart says the extra charges have been reversed, and the correct figures should begin to show up today Full Story Contact Us Sales For sales inquiries, please contact us at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Editorial For feedback about any of our articles or to send us your article ideas, please contact us at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ABOUT THIS E-NEWSLETTER This e-newsletter is published by Search390.com, a targeted Web site from TechTarget, the most targeted IT media and events company. Copyright 2004 TechTarget. All rights reserved. To unsubscribe from "Today's News": Go to unsubscribe: http://search390.techtarget.com/u?track=NL-170&ad=479781 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. Contact Us: Search390 MemberServices 117 Kendrick Street, Suite 800 Needham, MA 02494