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Visit http://www.bytware.com/carr.html, or call 800-932-5557. ================================================= ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LEAD STORY "COMMON: Storage vendors jockey for position" It's not taking center stage yet, but storage is clearly a hot button among users attending the Spring COMMON conference being held this week in New Orleans. The demand for storage is great among the midrange community, say vendors, and the ones exhibiting here are thrilled to be among the first to address the growing needs of the AS/400 user. SOURCE: search400 http://www.search400.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid3_gci552416,00.html MORE ON THIS TOPIC: Get complete COMMON coverage direct for New Orleans: http://search400.techtarget.com/specialEvents/1,289653,sid3_gci551610,00.html Best Web Links on storage: http://search400.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid3_tax2d1,00.html Ask our experts your storage question: http://search400.techtarget.com/ateExperts/0,289622,sid3,00.html EMC Corp.: http://www.emc.com Neartek, Inc.: http://www.neartek.com Tandberg Data: http://www.tandberg.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------------------------- TODAY'S OTHER AS/400 AND INDUSTRY NEWS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. "COMMON keynote: Time to spread the good word" 2. "IBM answers Microsoft's .Net" 3. "IBM makes e-commerce software push" 1. "COMMON keynote: Time to spread the good word" IBM is talking up a storm about how it's going to promote the hot new features of the iSeries and V5R1. And, while they're historically a skeptical group, users attending Spring COMMON this week in New Orleans appear to be more confident that IBM will finally be putting its money where its mouth is. SOURCE: search400 http://www.search400.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid3_gci552425,00.html 2. "IBM answers Microsoft's .Net" IBM isn't going to let Microsoft take over the market for developing Web services, Zona Research analyst Martin Marshall told searchMiddleware. This week, Big Blue announced a series of product enhancements across its DB2, Lotus, Tivoli and WebSphere product lines geared towards Web services. This is a direct answer to Microsoft's .Net initiative, Marshall said. SOURCE: searchMiddleware http://www.searchmiddleware.com/qna/0,289202,sid26_gci552444,00.html 3. "IBM makes e-commerce software push" IBM is adding enhancements to new versions of WebSphere and the DB2 database that would allow businesses to conduct automated e-commerce without people clicking on browsers. For example, when a new employee is hired, one command can start software to buy a desk, phone and computer. If red phones are out of stock, the software could search a directory for companies that have red phones and learn how to connect automatically to place an order. SOURCE: Bloomberg News http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-5915694.html ------------------------------------------------- WEEKLY POLL ------------------------------------------------- "Have you ever purchased a used or refurbished AS/400?" Vote now at http://www.search400.com/poll ------------------------------------------------- BEST AS/400 WEB LINKS ------------------------------------------------- [1] "Marketing ideas flow freely from iSeries faithful" If you need a little chuckle, read this article. iSeries customers are known to be incredibly faithful, but some go as far as to help out IBM's Marketing Department. Check out a couple of off-the-wall ideas that these customers came up with. SOURCE: iSeries Magazine http://www.the400resource.com/CONTENT/MONTHLY/200105/Haines.html [2] "Evaluating appropriate workloads for IBM--iSeries Dedicated Sierver for Domino" Read this new white paper for the latest information on how different Domino workloads perform on the new highly scalable iSeries DSDs. SOURCE: IBM http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/domino/pdf/dsdworkloads.pdf 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. 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