IBM has lanched a direct ship fulfillment program that may threaten its distributors' sales margins. Meanwhile, it's also expanding worldwide service efforts, which may encroach on its VARs' integration business. In redefining its channel relationships, will IBM emphasize cooperation or competition? And in adapting to the change, will the channel stress volume or value?
While IT professionals look for ways to integrate their applications internally, IBM's message-oriented middleware MQSeries provides a way for legacy applications to communicate with the newer applications
Capacity Upgrades for S/390; G5's New Record; MQSeries: The Next Generation; Novell Network for OS/390.
As a building block to the performance management process, I/O management, acheduling, CPU resources and quality metrics can prove essential to increasing customer satisfaction, while decreasing costs.
This introduction to CICS support for enabling Internet access to CICS systems and applications attacks the problem of knowing which support to use for specific requirements.
The IBM Software Group has developed an extensive network of software business partners whose knowledge of e-business can benefit the building of their businesses.
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<P>The Tivoli ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager (Tivoli ADSM) is now available for the AS/400, as well as Windows NT, HP-UX and Sun Solaris.
<P>Novell Inc. (Provo, Utah) has released Netware for SAA 4 for open beta testing.