Today's News: Early adopters get the grid

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May 27, 2004 Published by  Search390.com Today's News IN THIS ISSUE: Grid "early adopters" to reap major benefits zSeries stokes database market Supply chain management for really smart people More headlines COBOL for newbies Robot joins origami fold SPONSORED BY:  Search390.com Product and Vendor Guide Simplify the process of finding mainframe-specific products and solutions. Search390.com's Product and Vendor Guide allows you to search listings alphabetically, and by industry or across such topics as Web and application development, systems management and more. Visit our easy-to-use guide now: Click Here! Grid "early adopters" to reap major benefits [Search390.com] Grid computing will take a giant leap in acceptance within the next few years as better technology ups productivity and reduces costs. MORE INFO: Vendors attempt to break barriers to grid Grid computing volunteers aim to end deadly diseases zSeries stokes database market [SearchDatabase.com] IBM owns a huge chunk of the database market, thanks in part to an increase in DB2 sales on the zSeries. Supply chain management for really smart people [SearchSAP.com] The newest supply chain management technology is taking place outside the firewall, where edge-of-enterprise applications give companies a whole new outlook. More headlines [Search390.com] Companies take baby steps toward grid (SearchOracle.com) TOPICS: COBOL for newbies Other programming languages come and go but COBOL still remains. The editors of Search390.com have assembled a collection of our best COBOL content. Click here to read COBOL for newbies. ASK THE EXPERTS: Making Linux go faster A Search390.com user asked David Boyes, our Linux on the mainframe expert: I run several Linux distributions (Red Hat 7.2, SLES 7.2) under z/VM 3.1 on a MP3000 H30. When I fire up a TOMCAT servlet engine on a Linux server and load some servlets, I experience high CPU utilization that affects VM performance across the board. Will a migration to z/VM version 4.4 resolve this? Click here to see David's response. TIPS: Crafting a new crib for PROCLIB Moving a PROCLIB can be a pain but Search390.com site expert Mark Zelden suggests a way to get it done. Click here to read the complete tip. Robot joins origami fold [Ananova] If you're worried that students in the U.S. are losing their tech edge, this story should take your fears and fold them up in a nice little paper wrapper. A student at Carnegie Mellon University has developed a robot that can -- are you sitting down? -- do origami. It can already make hats and little planes and is trying to master the more complicated reverse folding and prayer folding skills. America may still have that tech edge, but origami professionals probably feel a little uneasy. What's next, a robot that bakes its own Shrinky Dinks? 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 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