<P>IBM has launched a package of outsourcing services called Midrange Express, designed to help small and medium businesses with the day-to-day management, maintenance and support of AS/400e servers at a fixed, low rate.
<P>The chairman of IBM Europe, Middle East and Africa told an IT and telecommunications seminar in Copenhagen yesterday that the cost of computer data storage would fall to as little as two cents per megabyte within two years.
<P>Microsoft Corp. has found a Year 2000 problem in Windows 98 and has issued an update to fix it.
<P>Bluestone Software's (Mount Laurel, N.J.) Web application server, Sapphire/Web has passed tests at IBM-Rochester and now supports the AS/400.
Starting this Friday, customers will be able to order IBM Net.Commerce for AS/400 Version 2 simultaneously with AS/400 hardware. Customers will no longer need to deal with separate order numbers or forms for hardware and Net.Commerce software orders.
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