LUG Issues Call to iASP Arms for ISVs
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

The computer business is cryptic, and you have to be playing inside baseball to understand that headline. The LUG is, of course, the Large AS/400 User Group, a non-profit comprised of the largest IBM i shops in the world. ISVs are, of course, independent software vendors who peddle products for the OS/400 and i platform. And iASP is not the International Association for the Study of Pain or the Indiana Association of School Principals, but rather the independent auxiliary storage pool feature of the OS/400, i5/OS, and IBM i operating system family. READ MORE >

Mainframes Put IBM Back on Top for Servers in Q4
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

The Others category was the big winner for IBM in the fourth quarter of 2010 for server sales, according to the latest statistics from Gartner. Pent-up demand for mainframes helped Big Blue rake in the bucks for its new System zEnterprise 196. And, I think but I cannot prove, the Power Systems-IBM i combo did its part in the quarter to help raise Big Blue's revenues in the system racket. READ MORE >

Social Business Ushering Changes in Content Management
by Dan Burger

As all the latest, greatest collaboration tools--or if you prefer the term social business tools--make their way into companies, another river of data is in need of organization. Some businesses have yet to skillfully manage their transactional data and business processes, while others have those handles in place and are on an organizational mission to do the same for what is commonly called unstructured data--the emails, the instant messages, the blogs, the modern communications that are increasingly permeating business. READ MORE >

Mad Dog 21/21: Talking Toklas
by Hesh Wiener

Here is how the game show Jeopardy works. The presenter says that the answer is 9W. The contestant must come up with the right question, Do you spell your name with a V, Herr Wagner? Here is another example: The answer is Linux. A winning response is, What's in the server? or What runs on the Watson server? Jeopardy fans loved watching the computer win as it prepared to IBM i or AIX formulated some special questions, such as How much would we save if we ran Linux instead? READ MORE >