Today's News: Bye bye Big Blue

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August 19, 2004 Published by  Search400.com    Today's News Issue Sponsored By:   > iStudio400.com IN THIS ISSUE:   >  CIO kicks IBM to curb   >  The crowd goes mild over iSeries   >  Compuware: Big Blue behaved badly   >  More headlines   >  Free Book Excerpt -- XML for eServer i5 and iSeries   >  The Missing Link: IT firm submits to critics, yanks suggestive ad CIO kicks IBM to curb [SearchCIO.com] It's hard to tell where IT ends and business begins at Owens & Minor. How did it get that way? Partly because the CIO amicably kicked a Big Blue outsourcing partner to the curb. MORE INFO: > Read this recent tip: Insourcing beyond outsourcing   iStudio400.com Have you ever had the need to synchronize real-time data from a Microsoft SQL, Oracle, Sybase or other ODBC compliant database? If you ask someone how to do it, the answers you usually get are that you need to do it from the PC side, because the iSeries can't do it. Yes it can. Find out how:   The crowd goes mild over iSeries [iSeries Network] IBM's server revenues may be heading up, but iSeries sales are going in the opposite direction. The company claims the iSeries demand is building, but so far the sales flood gates have not opened. One reseller says this iSeries inertia is Big Blue's come-uppance for neglecting software vendors over the past few years. (Free registration to this site required.) Compuware: Big Blue behaved badly [Associated Press] The Compuware versus IBM soap opera has taken another twist. Compuware has asked a federal judge to penalize Big Blue for producing evidentiary source code two years too late. Compuware says this code is key to proving its point -- that IBM stole source code from Compuware's mainframe software and sold it as its own. IBM says Compuware's move is just "litigation tactics." More headlines [From around the Web] SCO suit losing its sting? (InternetNews) D.C. the place to be for IT jobs (eWEEK) Financial firms stampeding to India (The New York Times) FREE BOOK EXCERPT:  Free Book Excerpt -- XML for eServer i5 and iSeries Log on and download for free Chapter 1 of XML for eServer i5 and iSeries written by Steve Bos and David Morris and published by MC Press. This chapter, "XML: Where Did It Come From? Where Is It Going?" provides an introduction to XML and introduces you to some ways in which you can use XML on your iSeries platform to exchange information and create Web applications. Win a copy of the book: After you've read the chapter, test how much you learned and then send us the results for a chance to win a copy of XML for eServer i5 and iSeries. Send your e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. ISERIES GLOSSARY:  iSeries acronyms and terms defined There are so many iSeries acronyms and terms and so little time to figure them all out. Search400.com has gathered and defined some of the industry's top used acronyms and terms to help you stay abreast of the older, and upcoming lingo, out there. If you're puzzled by a term not seen here, please e-mail us, and we'll add the definition to our list. EXPERT ANSWER CENTER:  Get fast answers to your IT questions! The Expert Answer Center combines advice and solutions from over 100 technology, management and career experts from TechTarget's family of IT-oriented Web sites. In addition to this massive searchable database, the Expert Answer Center continually highlights one featured expert who answers new questions from our members on a specific topic. This site is also the home of the IT Visions Webcast Series, a monthly webcast for IT executives that spotlights strategic issues. IT firm submits to critics, yanks suggestive ad [The Register] Next time your company is trying to come up with a cool ad campaign, remember this -- people get enough bondage talk with their spam; they don't want it with their IT trade pubs, too. Web hosting firm Amen Ltd. recently ran an ad with the headline "Bound to Serve" and "Take control of your very own dedicated server -- 100% Linux, 100% dedicated" at the bottom of the ad. The verbiage wasn't really the problem. It was the picture between the text that was the problem -- a semi-clad woman wearing a mask. The picture was worth a thousand words -- not all of them complimentary. Amen axed the ad. Amen to that. Must have been one scary mask.   Contact Us Sales For sales inquiries, please contact us at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Editorial For feedback about any of our articles or to send us your article ideas, please contact us at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]     Free E-Newsletters! 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