PHP Will Soon Be Native on the System i5
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Decades of computing has not in any way diminished the number of different programming languages in the world, which is a bit astonishing when you stop to think about it. There is always a new type of job that comes along, and more times than not, a new programming language evolves to do that job. So it is with the PHP language, which is arguably one of the most popular languages in use out there on the Web. And very soon, as we told you last year, you will be able to get it for your System i5. READ MORE >

3Com, IBM Are Porting VoIP Suite to the System i5
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

What's the one thing other than a PC or thin client or twinax workstation that most end users have on their desks? A telephone. And wouldn't it be ironic, after all of the religious wars and arguments about how to modernize the screens of hundreds of thousands of business applications running in OS/400 shops, if the next killer app to come to the OS/400 platform was a telephone? And that is just what IBM and 3Com, a networking specialist that has transformed itself into a commercial-grade supplier of Voice over IP (VoIP) solutions for enterprises, has in mind. READ MORE >

IBM Hints at Triple Redundancy in Power6
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

If you like a good riddle and lots of speculation, you probably like talking about politics, or the entertainment industry, or the future processors from chip makers. In all three cases, there is a lot more known than anyone is willing to talk about, a lot of misinterpretation and misinformation, and a lot of excitement over what will be popular and what will become yesterday's news. IBM has been gradually revealing more details about its future Power6 processors, and last week said a few more things about it. READ MORE >

Why American Employees Are So Unhappy
by Doug Mewmaw

As I was flying home, I started to chuckle as I thought of my last year at my previous company. I had been there 16 years and had risen up the corporate ladder pretty successfully. The company was in turmoil as a recent merger was failing horribly. Good people were abandoning ship as no one wanted to stay around in a culture that was unhealthy and unproductive. I remember feeling how much my hands were tied, and I will never forget when I needed a director signature for a $7 set of dry erase markers . . . and I worked for an office products company! READ MORE >