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IBM has teamed up with COMMON, the world’s largest group of IT professionals who use midrange IBM and IBM-compatible information technology, to offer IBM eServer iSeries Innovation Awards.

The nominations for the 2006 IBM eServer iSeries Innovation Awards are open through end of day next Tuesday, January 31, 2006. This means that you have less than one week to nominate your favorite customer, your own firm, or yourself for this award that recognizes business and IT innovation at the highest level.

Here are the five nomination categories for the 2006 IBM eServer iSeries Innovation Awards:

Application Deployment Award

Business Resiliency Award

Infrastructure Simplification Award

i5/OS Focus Award

Education Excellence Award

For further descriptions and additional details on these award categories, go to

Innovation Awards.

The award recipients and their teams will be honored at the IBM eServer iSeries Innovation Awards banquet, to be held at the Spring 2006 COMMON Conference and Expo in Minneapolis on Monday, March 27, 2006.

Award recipients will receive: a crystal award, complimentary
2006 COMMON membership, five complimentary registrations to a 2006 COMMON conference, one complimentary registration to the 2006 COMMON IT Executive conference, feature articles in COMMON.Connect Magazine and IBM eServer iSeries Edition Magazine, and other press features.