http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bnsindex.html Breaking News. en-us 2011 Guild Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved February 7, 2012 IT Jungle IT Jungle http://www.itjungle/com/bns/bns-rss.html 20 http://www.itjungle.com/images/break/title_break.gif http://www.itjungle/com/bns/bns-rss.html 275 50 http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns020712-story01.html If any iteration of the OS/400-i5/OS-IBM i platform could be said to have lived long and prospered, it is i5/OS V5R4, often now called IBM i 5.4 although that was not its original name. This release, which was announced on April 10, 2007, has had a long life among the OS/400 family of operating systems not only because it was a good, solid OS, but because the move to the more recent IBM i 6.1 and 7.1 required a program conversion process customers either couldn't do or didn't want to do. http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns020712-story01.html February 7, 2012 http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns102611-story01.html The drama is over, and Ginni Rometty, who has spent the past three decades at IBM, is going to be the next president and chief executive officer at the company. Rometty, who is 54, beat out her colleagues Mike Daniels, who is 56 and who runs Global Services, and Steve Mills, who is 60 and who runs Systems and Software Group, for the job. Sam Palmisano, who has held the president position since 2000, the CEO job since 2002, and the chairman job since 2003, will remain chairman of the board at the request of Rometty and the board. http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns102611-story01.html October 26, 2011 http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns101911-story01.html Despite the impending launch of new Power7-based machines that came out on October 12, the Power Systems business on which IBM i customers depend nonetheless booked another great 13 weeks in the third quarter of 2011. Even though IBM was short $103 million compared to what Wall Street expected it to do in terms of aggregate sales, profits were right on target and Big Blue was confident enough in the fourth quarter to raise its earnings guidance for the third time this year. http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns101911-story01.html October 19, 2011 http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns071911-story01.html The comparisons are getting a little bit harder as 2011 rolls along, but the Power Systems business at IBM pulled its weight and then some in the second quarter ended in June. Big Blue's mainframe business is enjoying the best upgrade cycle it has had in five years, raking in the bucks as companies in emerging markets buy mainframes for the first time and established companies in the financial services and insurance industries do long-overdue upgrades to their big iron. http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns042611-story01.html July 19, 2011 http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns042611-story01.html All of those shareholders of Lawson Software who had been hoping that perpetually hungry software giant Oracle might take a run at its much smaller software rival are no doubt sorely disappointed--and perhaps have lost a bit of money--now that Lawson has accepted the original and unsolicited offer that Golden Gate Capital and its ERP software brand, Infor, made back in March. http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns042611-story01.html April 26, 2011 http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns042011-story01.html The Power Systems business is finally hitting on all five cylinders: blade servers, entry servers, midrange servers, enterprise servers, and the big bad box. It took IBM the better part of a year to get the entire Power7-based server lineup into the field, and the first quarter of 2011 was the first financial period when all of the new iron was available and, perhaps more importantly, when customers thought business conditions had stabilized enough for them to actually spend money. http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns042011-story01.html April 20, 2011 http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns041211-story01.html You were probably wondering like I was last year why IBM only announced Power Systems blade servers using the Power7 processors with single-sockets instead of also offering more dense configurations with two sockets per blade. Big Blue never explained this, but now, one day shy of a year later, the company has put two-socket blade servers into the field. The company has also cranked the clocks a little bit on the Power7 processors used in the four-socket Power 750 midrange workhorse servers. http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns041211-story01.html April 12, 2011 http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns011911-story01.html Let's cut right to the chase scene. The entry systems portion of the Power Systems lineup that matters most to i5/OS and IBM i shops started to show some signs of life in the fourth quarter, according to the financial results released by IBM yesterday afternoon after Wall Street closed down to get home through a slushy and cold New York evening. So, like me, you can exhale and then breathe a little bit. http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns011911-story01.html January 19, 2011 http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns101910-story01.html The hoped-for big bounce in Power Systems sales is going to have to wait until the fourth quarter, it looks like. With IBM only shipping high-end Power 795 and entry Power 710, 720, 730, and 740 systems for two weeks in the third quarter, these new machines, which were announced in the middle of August, probably did more damage to the quarter than they helped in terms of Power7-based server sales. Now, all eyes are turned to the fourth quarter, where IBM will have a complete Power7 systems lineup and perhaps the normal server bump to help it post some good numbers. http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns101910-story01.html October 19, 2010 http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns072010-story01.html Wall Street just can't get used to the fact that IBM doesn't care all that much about revenues or bookings or other indicators of business so long as it hits its revenue targets for the quarter and is on track for whatever this year's earnings per share goals are. That's how the top brass at Big Blue get their compensation and bonuses, after all. Still, Wall Street was expecting IBM to do better than $23.7 billion in sales in the second quarter, up 2 percent, and $3.39 billion in net income, up 9.1 percent. http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns072010-story01.html July 20, 2010 http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns072010-story02.html I think we might have to start calling it International Business Services and Software. Yesterday, after the market closed and after Big Blue told Wall Street all about its business in the second quarter, Sam Palmisano, IBM's president, chief executive officer, and chairman, sent out an email to all of the company's employees telling them about some reorganization of the company. This reorg is different from other ones you have seen. http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns072010-story02.html July 20, 2010