i5 Announcements Loaded with Software, Previews
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

In the past few weeks, we've walked you through the new Power5-based "Squadron" servers, which bear the eServer i5 moniker, and the basic features of the new i5/OS V5R3 operating system. This week, I want to drill down a little deeper into the May 4 announcements and walk you through some other interesting software from Big Blue that is associated with the new operating system. I'll also go over a number of product previews for future iSeries technologies. READ MORE >

Where the iSeries Meets the Xbox
by David Morris

The spring COMMON conference was full of surprise announcements from IBM. As you know by now, IBM is delivering Power5 technology on the iSeries that is 18 to 24 months ahead of anything Intel has to offer in its X86 chips. Another surprise came from IBM's chief iSeries scientist, Frank Soltis, who outlined plans for Power. Soltis described how IBM has been working with Microsoft to deliver Power chips in the next generation of its Xbox game machine. READ MORE >

Flashback to 1956: IT for Rent
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

If you have ever worked in product sales, you know there is a certain charge that comes from having a good product, from knowing it is a better product than that of the competition, and making a big sale. While some sales people enjoy the risk of failure, many more enjoy being a reflection or an extension of a good product and the company that created it. But both sellers and consumers of IT products are just plain sick of the game. We've had quite enough. READ MORE >

As I See It: Ricardo's Law
by Victor Rozek

Almost 200 years ago, British economist David Ricardo, Adam Smith's successor in England's economic esteem, had a momentous insight about the cost of labor. "The natural price of labor," he declared, "is that price which is necessary to enable the laborers to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution." To put it another way, if it didn't have to, a company would pay a worker no more than the amount required to feed him and beget his replacement. Although much of humanity's struggle has been a back-breaking effort to free us from the yoke of this axiom, that effort is stalled and gains are being reversed. READ MORE >

  But Wait, There's More

Seagull Sees Better Times, Locks in Bigger Credit Line . . . Intentia Appoints New CEO, Says ERP Spending Improving But Still Tough . . . Partnerships! Partnerships! Partnerships! . . . Aldon Announces New Name and Software Brand . . . Forrester Says IT Spending Picking Up . . . Agilysys Reports Increase in Year-End Revenues . . . New Offerings from UCCnet and EPCglobal . . . OS/400 PTF Guide Moves to Four Hundred Guru Newsletter . . . READ MORE >

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