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THIS MONTH'S SYSTEM INEWS HIGHLIGHTS
OPINION AND INDUSTRY:
iCommunity (p. 6)

From the Trenches: Get Rid of Stuff from Your IT Shelf (p. 9)

Conferences in the Twenty-First Century: Are They Worth It? (p. 11)

fyiSystem (p. 13)

IBM Announcements (p. 17)

Industry Report: The Developer's Guide for Now: 5 Plus 1 Must-Have Skills (p. 19)

Hot or Not: Opening Doors with Open Source (p. 48)

PRODUCTS:
Hot New Products (p. 23)

Demo Booth: Evaluate Your System's Security—Free Compliance Assessment from PowerTech (p. 34)

Buyer's Guide: Enterprise Wireless (p. 37)

Case Study: BCD Provides Dominion Enterprises with Solution for Self-Service HR Portal (p. 41)

FEATURES:
Cover Story: Securing Directories, Files, and Applications with Apache (p. 27)


PRO VIP CONTENT
APPLICATION MODERNIZATION:
More on Unicode and Converting RPG Applications (p. PROVIP 3)

You Can Have Your Modern Interface and an RPG Core, Too (p. PROVIP 9)

DATABASE/SQL:
Auditing and Tracking STRSQL Usage (p. PROVIP 15)

AVAILABILITY:
High-Availability Considerations for Virtual Workloads (p. PROVIP 21)

Thinking Outside of the "Box": Setting Up Hardware Replication (p. PROVIP 27)

SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT:
Let IBM i Monitor Itself...at No Additional Cost! (p. PROVIP 33)

TECH CORNER:
Killer Club Tech (p. PROVIP 38)

Dr. I Doctor (p. PROVIP 40)


COMING UP NEXT MONTH
Bloopers, Blunders & Gaffes
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