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Volume 18, Number 16 -- April 27, 2009
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IBM Launches Power6+ Servers--Again
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Surprise, surprise, surprise. Attendees of the COMMON midrange conference and expo in Reno, Nevada, got a sneak preview of some announcements that IBM is making on Tuesday. As many of us had been expecting, the announcements--all part of a much larger Dynamic Infrastructure push by Big Blue--do indeed include Power6+ processors inside Power Systems iron. That's not the surprise. But this is: these are not the first machines to use the Power6+ kickers to the Power6 chips. READ MORE >

Power Systems Down A Bit in IBM's First Quarter
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

IBM's Power Systems division, which sells what were formerly known as System i and System p servers and which are simply called Power Systems these days, was a relative bright spot among its various server lines in the company's financial report for the first quarter of 2009. But even the popularity of IBM's high-end Power boxes could not defy the same pressures that all of IBM's other groups are feeling thanks to the economic meltdown. READ MORE >



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COMMON Europe Opens Up Global i Top Concerns Survey
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

The AS/400 community has always been an international one, and in fact, for most of the 30 years that IBM has been selling midrange systems, the company did a lot more box shipments in Europe than it did in the United States. This made sense, given that Europe was not yet economically united and each country had its own businesses. Mergers around the world have given rise to a lot of consolidation of companies and their platforms, which has diluted the multinational feel of the i platform a bit. But just a bit. READ MORE >


But Wait, There's More:

• Jilted Sun Snapped Up by Oracle for Application Systems

• JDA Sales Hampered and Profits Slammed by Downturn in Q1

• NSPI Taps Halcyon to Manage i Hosting Customers


Reader Feedback and Insights

We value your feedback and insights.  Feel free to send a letter to the editor.  Letters may be printed, unless otherwise specified, and edited for clarity or length. READ MORE >


 
Editor: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Contributing Editors: Dan Burger, Joe Hertvik, Brian Kelly, Shannon O'Donnell,
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TPM at The Register
Sun says it's time for MySQL 5.4

Sun mates MySQL with more iron

IBMware priced 40% higher on Nehalem

Come on out, Power6+, you win

AMD pulls forward six-shooter Opteron cannon

IBM boasts Sun-HP server pact pillaging

AMD chases Nehalem with speedier Shanghai

Ex-Red-Hat brains decide to ride cloud

Unisys scratches labels off Dell Nehalems

VMware unmasks next-gen hypervisor

Big Blue defies server crash with Q1 profit

Canonical punts Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope

King Larry launches Oracle-Sun combo at Big Blue, Cisco

HP pits Matrix against Cisco's California

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
IBM Launches Power6+ Servers--Again

Power Systems Down A Bit in IBM's First Quarter

COMMON Europe Opens Up Global i Top Concerns Survey

But Wait, There's More:

Jilted Sun Snapped Up by Oracle for Application Systems . . . JDA Sales Hampered and Profits Slammed by Downturn in Q1 . . . NSPI Taps Halcyon to Manage i Hosting Customers . . .

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