What Will Be Shaking with the iSeries in 2006?
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

As most of us know, IBM has a new release of the i5/OS operating system--Version 5 Release 4--coming out some time in 2006. Beyond admitting this, Big Blue has been pretty quiet in the past year about what it has cooking for the iSeries product line in the future, beyond the hints it has offered to me in past years. But, because the company knows that you have to talk about the future if you expect people to follow you there, about this time every year the people from Rochester and Somers are kind enough to talk about the future with me. READ MORE >

Reading the IT Leaves for 2006
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

The 2005 IT budget cycle is ending, and the 2006 budget cycle is getting ready to begin. And that means the prognosticators, predictors, soothsayers, and auguries of the IT analyst community, and their counterparts on Wall Street, are all gazing into their crystal balls and trying to figure out what is going to happen in 2006 in terms of IT spending and technology trends. Some of you will follow trends, others will buck them, but none of us will escape their effects. READ MORE >

   As I See It: My Place Or Yours
   by Victor Rozek

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
--Oscar Wilde

Not all that long ago, IT organizations were grappling with one of the most vexing question since the first Neanderthal pondered "how high the moon?" And like all great eternal questions, this one had no single answer that would satisfy everyone. More elusive than the meaning or life; more volatile than debating the existence of God; more daunting than the Sophie's choice of paper or plastic; the question straining the stout minds of IT managers everywhere was: centralized or distributed? READ MORE >

Happy Holidays!

It has been a long and exciting year in the IT industry and here at IT Jungle. We have loved every minute of it. And now it is time for us to wind this newsletter down for 2005, spend time with our family and friends, think about something other than the computer business for a brief few weeks, and get the rest and relaxation that will allow us to take on 2006 with all of the intelligence, wit, and insight we can muster. READ MORE >

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