=================================================== SEARCH400.COM DAILY NEWS April 24, 2001 More headlines at: http://search400.techtarget.com/news/0,289141,sid3,00.html =================================================== SPONSORED BY: Postmaster Direct =================================================== What do you like? Networks? Computer Games? Downloads? How about Free Stuff? Search400.com can get you FREE info on the topics that interest you most -- and there are so many to choose from! We'll find related news, information and special offers and deliver them directly to your e-mailbox, all at no charge! Sign up here today. http://search400.techtarget.com/postmasterDirect/ =================================================== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LEAD STORY "V5R1 brings explosion of new technologies to iSeries" Insider Weekly highlights the features of IBM's enhanced operating system, V5R1. Details include remarks from Buell Duncan, manager of midmarket servers to IBM business partners. SOURCE: Insider Weekly http://www.the400group.com/aiwweb/free/23-0401.html MORE ON THIS TOPIC: For more information, check out Insider Weekly's complete coverage of the V5R1 announcement at http://www.the400group.com/aiwweb/ Or, check out these search400 Best Web Links on V5R1 at http://search400.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid3_tax286405,00.html Is there an OS/400 question you'd like one of our search400 experts to answer? Submit it now at http://search400.techtarget.com/ateQuestion/0,289624,sid3_tax285220,00.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----------------------------------------------- TODAY'S OTHER AS/400 AND INDUSTRY NEWS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [1] "IBM to buy Informix database software" [2] "Unisys pins hopes on new servers" [1] "IBM to buy Informix database software" In a move that is sure to be a blow to database leader Oracle, IBM says it will buy Oracle's one-time rival Informix. It's got to be worth it to IBM. According to reports, Big Blue will pay $1 billion to seal the deal. SOURCE: Reuters (Free registration to this site required.) http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-ibm-informi.html [2] "Unisys pins hopes on new servers" Unisys says the goal of its recently introduced mainframe- class servers is to give users a way to continue taking advantage of their existing investments in proprietary Unisys environments while offering a reliable, mainframe- class system for running newer applications. SOURCE: Computerworld http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/stories/0,1199,NAV47-68-84-88-93_STO59896,00.html ---------------------------------------- WEEKLY POLL ---------------------------------------- Of V5R1's new or enhanced features, which one is most likely to facilitate your business? http://www.search400.com/poll PREVIOUS POLL RESULTS I'm holding off on implementing WebSphere because 23% It won't facilitate our business. 22% Because of limited Java skills. 21% None of the above. 14% Because of the cost. 11% Don't know. 8% Because of the lack of time. Total Votes: 215 --------------------------------------- BEST AS/400 WEB LINKS --------------------------------------- [1] "What else is new?" In March IBM invited midrange-industry journalists and industry analysts to Rochester, Minn., for a press briefing. Buell G. Duncan III, general manager, Mid-Market Servers, Server Group, addressed those assembled, telling them that, in terms of lines of code written and functionality provided, V5R1 is the largest announcement in the history of the iSeries and AS/400 platform. Check out this article for a quick overview of a few of selected features of the iSeries announcement. SOURCE: iSeries Magazine http://www.the400resource.com/Content/chronicles/Weekly/whatelse5.html [2] "Book Reviews: Performance books put to the test" Want to make your users very happy? Improve the performance of your Java programs. In this article the reviewer puts six Java performance books to the test. You can help to put Java's lack-of-performance myth to rest by using one or more of these books to optimize your programs. SOURCE: Java World http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0323-perfbooks.html Do you know of a good article or Web site that should be included in our Best AS/400 Web Links? If so, let us know. Send us the headline, URL and a brief summary to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------- THE MISSING LINK A look at an off-the-wall story off the Web -------------------------------------------- "Coder by day, love machine by night" A few decades ago, Helen Gurley Brown's book "Sex and the Single Girl" enlightened the public about the love life of single females. A new "unscientific" poll from IT job site JustTechJobs.com may do the same for IT workers. According to the poll, adult male high tech-workers have sex 37% more often than men in other careers. More than 7,500 men who work in information systems responded to a marketing poll question about sex habits. The results indicate they have sex 108 times a year, about 37% more often than respondents in a similar survey done by Men's Health magazine. So, if you're looking for a more active love life, get an IT job. 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