Title: Today's News
June 29, 2004 Published by  Search390.com

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IN THIS ISSUE:
  > Hospital hopes to cure paper chaos with z890
  > IBM Linux GM: Enterprises beyond TCO questions with Linux
  > Oracle-DOJ case winds down, heats up
  > More headlines
  > IMS meets the Web!
  > Fingers fly in SMS speed contest


 
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Hospital hopes to cure paper chaos with z890
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A teaching hospital attempts to make the paperless office a reality -- with a little help from the mainframe.
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IBM debuts high-end mainframe for midsize businesses
Mainframe bright spot in IBM's earnings report -- again


IBM Linux GM: Enterprises beyond TCO questions with Linux
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Jim Stallings, IBM's Linux general manager, says strategies have changed around Linux and customers have done their homework.

Oracle-DOJ case winds down, heats up
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Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison and PeopleSoft Inc. CEO Craig Conway are among the final witnesses slated to testify this week in the Oracle-DOJ courtroom battle.

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SAP, PeopleSoft top customer loyalty survey (SearchSAP.com)

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WEBCASTS:  IMS meets the Web!
f you said Web-enabling a database, most people probably think you mean connecting DB2 to the Web. But IMS, IBM's older database, is just as Web worthy. IMS is geared for fast and frequent access. You can directly attach IMS to the Web or go via CICS or DB2. In this Webcast, Jim Keohane discussed the ins and outs of bringing IMS databases to the Web.
Click here to check out this informative Webcast.

TOPICS:  Intro. to IMS
IMS may be an older technology but that doesn't mean it's over the hill. Far from it. IBM's venerable hierarchical database is still widely used today. Check out this set of links to learn more about IMS. To see this week's Featured Topic, click here.

ASK THE EXPERTS:  Creating a subtask from COBOL
A Search390.com user asked Tom Ross, our COBOL and programming expert:
Is there any way to implement batch multitasking -- the attaching of subtasks -- from one COBOL for OS/390 program to another using LE or some other standard package?
To read Tom's reply, click here.


The Missing Link
Fingers fly in SMS speed contest
[Associated Press]
Carl Lewis, Flash Gordon, Chuck Yeager -- now Kimberly Yeo joins the society of supreme speedsters. Yeo, a 23-year-old from Singapore, set a world record in a text message speed test. In a breathtaking display of digital dexterity, Yeo banged out a 26-word, perfectly punctuated message in 43.66 seconds with none of the usual SMS shortcuts (L8r, IMO, etc.). She said that she sends out about 50 texts per day, which puts her on track for the title of Miss Carpal Tunnel Syndrome 2004.
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