• Infor to Buy Datastream for $216 Million

  January 9, 2006 Alex Woodie

  Infor kicked off the new year in a fashion very similar to the way it finished off 2005: by announcing plans to buy a software company. The Atlanta software company, which is arguably the largest vendor of OS/400 applications in the industry, last week unveiled plans to snap up Datastream, a developer of software that helps companies monitor the performance of their capital assets, such as factories, truck fleets, and machinery. Infor says Datastream’s software, which runs on Unix and Windows servers and utilizes an Oracle or Microsoft database, will be a welcome addition for its current stable of

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• Frank Cary, Former IBM CEO and Chairman, Dies at 86

  January 9, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Frank Cary, the IBM chairman who guided Big Blue through some of the toughest and most profitable times in the company’s eight-decade existence, died on January 1. He was 86 years old and was still serving on the board of directors of Lexmark International, the former IBM printer division in Kentucky that was spun out in 1991 and has, to a large degree, succeeding where its parent was failing. Cary was chairman and CEO beginning on January 1, 1973, after Vin Learson set the IBM precedent of retiring at 60. He remained in charge of IBM until 1981, when he

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• COMMON, IBM Extend Deadline for iSeries Innovation Awards to January 31

  January 9, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Back in mid-November, IBM, the maker of the iSeries, and COMMON, the largest user group dedicated to the iSeries platform, opened up nominations for the second annual iSeries Innovation Awards. To nominate your company or business partner for an award in a number of different areas, you had to get your nomination form in by December 30. Apparently you were all a little busy as 2005 came to a close, so IBM and COMMON have extended the deadline to apply for an award to January 31. So if you are doing neat things with iSeries technology, now is

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• Novell, Red Hat Appoint New Chief Technology Officers

  January 9, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Commercial Linux distributor Novell continues to rejigger its management chairs as it deals with departures of key executives. IT Jungle was on holiday for Thanksgiving when Novell announced that it had appointed a new chief technology officer for the entire company, a position that has been vacant since April of this year, when Alan Nugent departed the company for Computer Associates to take over the company’s Unicenter systems management business. Novell’s new CTO is Jeffrey Jaffe, a heavy-hitting technologist who hails from IBM and the legendary Bell Laboratories, birthplace of Unix and C and other core IT technologies. As the

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• Barbarians at Bill Gates

  January 9, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Even if you have not been the richest man in the world for the better part of a decade, the one thing you can afford is a sense of humor. And it is nice to see that Bill Gates, one of Microsoft‘s founders, its chairman, and its chief software architect, has a great sense of humor. Nothing was made more clear when Gates called IBM its biggest threat in the IT market in an interview prior to his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week. CES usually comes in the early part of each

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• Novell, Red Hat Appoint New Chief Technology Officers

  January 9, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Commercial Linux distributor Novell continues to rejigger its management chairs as it deals with departures of key executives. IT Jungle was on holiday for Thanksgiving when Novell announced that it had appointed a new chief technology officer for the entire company, a position that has been vacant since April of this year, when Alan Nugent departed the company for Computer Associates to take over the company’s Unicenter systems management business. Novell’s new CTO is Jeffrey Jaffe, a heavy-hitting technologist who hails from IBM and the legendary Bell Laboratories, birthplace of Unix and C and other core IT technologies. As the

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• An IT Retrospective: Forty Years in the Business

  January 9, 2006 Rich Loeber

  I got to thinking the other day that as of November 2005, I celebrated my fortieth year in the information technology field. That thought has prompted me to think a lot about how I got started and the way things have changed over the years. This article will try to explore these four decades of progress from just one person’s perspective. I have absolutely no recollection of my first day on the job working in the IT field, but I clearly remember the second day. I started work on November 8, 1965, working in the computer room for the New

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• COMMON, IBM Extend Deadline for iSeries Innovation Awards to January 31

  January 9, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Back in mid-November, IBM, the maker of the iSeries, and COMMON, the largest user group dedicated to the iSeries platform, opened up nominations for the second annual iSeries Innovation Awards. To nominate your company or business partner for an award in a number of different areas, you had to get your nomination form in by December 30. Apparently you were all a little busy as 2005 came to a close, so IBM and COMMON have extended the deadline to apply for an award to January 31. So if you are doing neat things with iSeries technology, now is

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  Read more

• Frank Cary, Former IBM CEO and Chairman, Dies at 86

  January 9, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Frank Cary, the IBM chairman who guided Big Blue through some of the toughest and most profitable times in the company’s eight-decade existence, died on January 1. He was 86 years old and was still serving on the board of directors of Lexmark International, the former IBM printer division in Kentucky that was spun out in 1991 and has, to a large degree, succeeding where its parent was failing. Cary was chairman and CEO beginning on January 1, 1973, after Vin Learson set the IBM precedent of retiring at 60. He remained in charge of IBM until 1981, when he

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  Read more

• Infor to Buy Datastream for $216 Million

  January 9, 2006 Alex Woodie

  Infor kicked off the new year in a fashion very similar to the way it finished off 2005: by announcing plans to buy a software company. The Atlanta software company, which is arguably the largest vendor of OS/400 applications in the industry, last week unveiled plans to snap up Datastream, a developer of software that helps companies monitor the performance of their capital assets, such as factories, truck fleets, and machinery. Infor says Datastream’s software, which runs on Unix and Windows servers and utilizes an Oracle or Microsoft database, will be a welcome addition for its current stable of

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