The i5 Tests Well on SAP Data Warehousing Benchmarks
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

While IBM has shied away from testing the new eServer i5 Power5-based servers on the more common TPC-C online transaction processing or the SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) ERP benchmark test, the company knows that i5 buyers want to see something that allows them to compare the performance of an i5 to alternative platforms. To that end, IBM has just released another SAP Business Warehouse (BW) benchmark result, and the i5 is holding its own against the competition. READ MORE >

A Bunch of IBM iSeries Announcements
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Sometimes IBM makes big announcements that radically change the iSeries market, and sometimes it makes a bunch of little announcements that affect most customers in one way or another. Last week was one of the latter type, and this week I'll give you the lowdown on the little things IBM is up to in iSeriesland. READ MORE >

Tools Can Help Manage Change and Diverse Systems
by Dan Burger

Take a look at the enterprise-level companies, the mega corporations that sit atop the business food chain. What do you typically see in the IT departments? They have iSeries silos, Unix silos, Windows silos, Linux silos, and mainframe silos. And the culture, if you can call it that, is generally that hardly anyone talks to anyone else who is working outside of his or her silo. Change, however, is in the wind. READ MORE >

Deloitte Says Outsourcing Doesn't Always Pay
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

One of the dominant services in the IT sector is outsourcing, and the practice has always been one that had its supporters and its detractors. With outsourcing, you pay an expert to do your IT for you, and in theory, you save money and get better IT. That's the theory. The practice, well, that is often a different story. If a new report by Deloitte Consulting is any indication, customers are getting savvy about what outsourcing is really like and they are not necessarily happy. READ MORE >

   But Wait, There's More

Some Clarifications from IBM on Workplace for the iSeries . . . Third World Growth in Programmers to Cap Growth in the First World . . . Freeman Says Tape Library Sales Up Even with Flat Shipments in 2004 . . . Past JDA Restructuring Yields Current Profits . . . Lakeview Tech Adds Three New Executives . . . iTera Adds Resellers and Partners in the Asia/Pacific Region . . . SOX Is Driving Small Banks Crazy . . . READ MORE >

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