=================================================== SEARCH400.COM DAILY NEWS July 13, 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 "IBM's Eliza is here to serve you" IBM announced the release of software that will assist the computer help desk. IBM bills the program as a "self-help, self-healing and self-diagnostic" tool, released as part of its ongoing "autonomic" computing technology billed under the name Project eLiza. The software, called Virtual Help Desk, incorporates an artificial intelligence component that can understand complaints in normal prose and fix the problems. SOURCE: The Associated Press http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,45210,00.html MORE ON THIS TOPIC: What do you think of eLiza? Do you feel this new software will give businesses the ability to manage its systems more efficiently? Share your opinions with your colleagues in the search400 Discussion Forums. http://search400.discussions.techtarget.com/ See this search400 original story about Eliza. http://search400.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid3_gci552737,00.html?Exclusive=True Or see these search400 Best Web Links about managing your systems. http://search400.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid3_tax286955,00.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----------------------------------------------- TODAY'S OTHER AS/400 AND INDUSTRY NEWS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [1] "Kana, IBM link CRM offerings to WebSphere Commerce Suite" [2] "IBM in line for modest profit gain" [3] "Sistina's file systems of the future" [1] "Kana, IBM link CRM offerings to WebSphere Commerce Suite" Kana and IBM announced the integration of IBM's WebSphere Commerce Suite with Kana's Web-based customer relationship management (CRM) products. The companies will enable users to link WebSphere Commerce Suite to Kana products ranging from Kana Response, which processes incoming e-mails, to Kana Service, a contact center product. SOURCE: InfoWorld http://iwsun4.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/07/13/010713hnkana.xml [2] "IBM in line for modest profit gain" Brokerage analysts are forecasting that next Wednesday IBM will report a modest rise in its second-quarter earnings, but they may be lower than Wall Street's consensus. SOURCE: Poughkeepsie Journal http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/today/business/stories/bu071301s1.shtml [3] "Sistina's file systems of the future" Sistina Software may hold the key to storage applications on Linux clusters. Rather than having islands of storage the company's Global File System (GFS) can be accessed for read-and-write from every server in a cluster. In effect, GFS can pool storage onto cheap, efficient machines. SOURCE: the451.com http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci754987,00.html ---------------------------------------- WEEKLY POLL ---------------------------------------- Microsoft has been criticizing the General Public License open-source software model, saying that it undermines the commercial software sector and hurts innovation. What is your opinion of Microsoft's position? Vote now at http://www.search400.com/poll --------------------------------------- BEST AS/400 WEB LINKS --------------------------------------- [1] "Online Disk Arms Calculator" IBM has added the Online Disk Arms Calculator for AS/400 and iSeries 400 as part of its support program. The purpose of the Disk Arms Calculator is to help you in determining a minimum number of disk devices needed to optimize performance on each AS/400 processor level. This number is independent of the quantity of drives needed to meet the desired storage capacity. Check out this support page for all of the details and tool requirements. SOURCE: IBM http://as400service.ibm.com/d_dir/DASD.nsf/FrontPage?OpenPage [2] "Where will they go to learn Cobol?" It seems that colleges are having the same language wars that iSeries programmers are engaged in. The writer of this article recently visited a college and was floored by what he heard. The college was dropping RPG and Cobol from the program. Replacing Cobol and RPG are an advanced C class, an advanced Visual Basic class, and a database programming class that will center on SQL. Read this article to find out why Cobol was dropped and what's next. SOURCE: Midrange Computing http://www.midrangecomputing.com/mc/article.cfm?titleid=b1958&md=20017 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 ---------------------------------------- " 'Snatch' is favorite movie for Internet pirates" Pirates just love "Snatch". A survey shows the Brad Pitt flick is the No. 1 pirated movie on the Internet, having been snatched from theaters and downloaded onto some one million computers in June. Pretty soon, "PC" will stand for "pirated cinema." How do these scene-stealers do it? Just like Kramer did it in that "Seinfeld" episode -- they take a video camera into the theater. The footage is copied onto a PC, using the latest technology to compress the film into a format small enough to fit on a single CD. "Pearl Harbor," "Shrek," and "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider," are other prizes pirates are pilfering. 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