=================================================== SEARCH400.COM DAILY NEWS May 21, 2001 More headlines at: http://search400.techtarget.com/news/0,289141,sid3,00.html =================================================== SPONSORED BY: Postmaster Direct =================================================== Get free offers from reputable merchants for products that you are interested in. Pick from over 50 categories of interest, modify your profile at any time to suit your needs, and receive only the e-mail that interests you when you subscribe today. Just click on the link below and get your account up and running. http://search400.techtarget.com/postmasterDirect/ =================================================== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LEAD STORY "COMMON's 'Top Concerns' returns to action" After a two-year hiatus, COMMON's Global Top Concerns Program will start-up again. Global Top Concerns is a survey taken by COMMON members to get a better perspective on IBM and the industry and to determine users most pressing concerns. The program was created in 1992 and was abandoned before the 1999 survey. SOURCE: Midrange Computing http://www.midrangecomputing.com/mmu/article.cfm?id=805#more MORE ON THIS TOPIC Check out these additional news stories from COMMON at http://search400.techtarget.com/specialEvents/1,289653,sid3_gci551610,00.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----------------------------------------------- TODAY'S OTHER AS/400 AND INDUSTRY NEWS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [1] "IBM announces full-court Web services application strategy" [2] "IBM "pixie dust" breaks hard drive barrier" [3] "IBM customers generally bullish about Web services" [4] "IBM plugs Linux with new Web portal" [1] "IBM announces full-court Web services application strategy" IBM's announcement that its middleware products would support open Internet standards is expected to make it easier for companies to develop Web services applications. SOURCE: Midrange Computing http://www.midrangecomputing.com/mmu/article.cfm?id=806#more [2] "IBM "pixie dust" breaks hard drive barrier" IBM is expected to unveil hard drive technology that allows more data to be packed onto a disk than ever before. Some storage experts believe that storage capacity has its limits, but Big Blue's announcement could blow that theory out of the water. SOURCE: CNET http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5976693.html?tag=mn_hd [3] "IBM customers generally bullish about Web services" IBM customers are hopeful that the company's recently announced Web services plan will help to lower infrastructure costs and make it easier to link to trading partners. SOURCE: Network World http://www.nwfusion.com/archive/2001/120915_05-21-2001.html [4] "IBM plugs Linux with new Web portal" IBM is continuing its efforts to convince customers and partners of the benefits of using the open-source operating system. The company has unveiled a new Linux Web portal where customers and Linux devotees can learn about IBM's recent moves in the Linux world. Big Blue is also practicing what it preaches -- the site runs on an IBM Linux system hosted by two xSeries servers. SOURCE: AS400 Network (Free registration to this site required.) http://www.as400network.com/nwn/story.cfm?ID=10298 ---------------------------------------- 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] "IBM Solution Partnership Centers" The worldwide Solution Partnership Centers (SPC) provides easy access to those resources that you need to capitalize on the exploding customer demand for Linux-based e-business solutions. The SPCs offer support from migrating your application to Linux, all the way through to testing your Linux solution on IBM's e-servers, including IBM iSeries, xSeries, pSeries and zSeries server platforms. SOURCE: IBM http://www.developer.ibm.com/spc [2] "Jato: The new kid on the open source block" The Jato API converts XML documents into Java objects and back again. This writer publicly released the API in beta form recently at SourceForge. Based on the observation that transformations are mechanical and tedious, with Jato a simple XML script describes the XML/Java mapping. In this article, the first of three, he explains how to use Jato to perform basic Java-to-XML and XML-to-Java transformations. In Part 2, he focuses on performing complex Java-to-XML transformations, and in Part 3 explores converting an XML document into Java application objects. SOURCE: Java World http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0316-jato.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 --------------------------------------------- "Ginger inventor uses cartoonist dad to sketch" How trustworthy is your dad? The famed inventor of the top- secret creation known only as "Ginger" sure hopes his father remains tight-lipped. Dean Kamen relies on his dad, who is a former illustrator for Mad magazine, to sketch his initial designs. That means he's one of the few people to get a look at "Ginger," an invention that is reportedly more revolutionary than the World Wide Web. Is Ginger as amazing as everyone says? Father knows best. 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