Today's News: VCs tap iSeries vendors

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An e-newsletter published by Search400.com   February 03, 2004 >> Receive this e-mail as text   >> About this e-mail  ISSUE SPONSORED BY: >>  Visit Search400.com's Webcast Library: http://search400.techtarget.com/webcastsTranscripts/0,289709,sid3,00.html?track=NL-177&Offer=surplus404  Today's Highlights   >>  LEAD STORY:  iSeries vendors could spark VC interest >>  NEWS:  Oracle to battle Microsoft on price >>  WEBCAST PREMIERE:  RPG skills for the new millennium >>  THE MISSING LINK:  Jackson action a watershed moment -- for TiVo  News and Top Stories   LEAD STORY iSeries vendors could spark VC interest  (iSeries Network) Venture capitalists are not rushing to do deals, but they are definitely coming out of hiding. And if the iSeries continues to expand to adopt Linux, some experts say VCs will be very interested. (Free registration to this site required.) More on this topic: >  2004 outlook: VoIP to rise, Sun to set SPONSORED BY: Search400.com Webcast Library Keep up to date by viewing past webcasts in our Webcast Library. If you didn't have time to catch our most recent webcast, or if you would like to brush up on previous topics, our Webcast Library is always available for viewing. Check back often NEWS Oracle to battle Microsoft on price (SearchDatabase.com) In a nod to SQL Server's increasing popularity, Oracle Corp. is slashing the price of its database designed for small and medium-sized businesses to compete with Microsoft. DAILY HEADLINES All headlines, including those below, are available from our news page.   >  Top high-availability tools (Search400.com)   >  Top output/printing tools (Search400.com)   VIEW ALL NEWS AND TOP STORIES  Announcements & Links   FORUM ADVICE Receiving Java error messages This Search400.com member is running into problems executing from a CLP RUNJVA command. Are you a Java guru? Why not click over, check out the error message, and see if you can help him out. >>  Participate in this discussion thread EXPERT ADVICE Sudden SQL query failures Kent Milligan, DB2 advice Dear Kent, We were recently testing an application against V5R2. A couple of external SQL queries suddenly started failing with error SQL0666 (SQL Timeout). I'm wondering if there was a change between OS/400 at V5R1 and V5R2 that triggered this? >>  View Ken't response WEBCAST PREMIERE RPG skills for the new millennium Date: Tuesday, Feb. 10, 9 a.m. EST (14:00 GMT) Speaker: Paul Tuohy, CEO of ComCon and author of Re-Engineering RPG Legacy Applications Join us as RPG programming guru Paul Tuohy outlines what is needed to prepare applications for the modern era. Learn what the programming requirements are as you move away from "green screen" and how RPG fits in. >>  Register to listen to broadcast TAKE OUR POLL Vote now Which Democratic presidential candidate do you believe would best protect U.S. IT workers? >>  Sound off! What do you think about this poll? Let us know WEBSPHERE STRATEGIES TIP Receive free WebSphere tips Our WebSphere Strategies tips will provide ideas and suggestions to help you work with WebSphere and its development tools. With articles from Jim Mason and other WebSphere gurus, you'll learn how to bring the power of the Web to important applications. Recent tips you may find of interest: >>  Generating XML from SQL data >>  Other options for generating XML or storing XML in a database THE MISSING LINK Jackson action a watershed moment -- for TiVo Say what you will about the notorious Janet-Justin mammary moment during the Super Bowl halftime show -- the incident has been a touchdown for TiVo. 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