Project Prometheus: Playing with Fire
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

If you browse the various forums of the OS/400 community when you are bored, like I know many of you do, you might have recently run across something called "Project Prometheus." There has been a lot of speculation about what this super-secret project might be, ranging from a revamped marketing campaign to a new line of System i servers. I have done some digging, and I can tell you a little about it. READ MORE >

The Dollars and Sense of Training Newbie RPG Programmers
by Mary Lou Roberts

Look around at your fellow workers in IT. If you're in a typical AS/400 shop (yes, I said "AS/400" on purpose), you might notice one thing about your cohorts that constitutes a significant difference from those whippersnapper Windows folks. No, I don't mean that you're working on a stable, reliable platform and they aren't; I'm hinting at the fact that you probably have more gray hair then they do--and perhaps a little more paunch as well. You also are more likely to spend weekends with the kids (or grandkids?), to remember the days when no one had personal computers, to have personal recollections of Watergate, and to be giving at least some preliminary thought to retirement. READ MORE >

Gartner Report Espouses the Virtues of i5/OS
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

While all of us live each week in the OS/400 community in one capacity or another, many of the business managers that you work with do not know what the AS/400, iSeries, or System i5 are, nor do they have any idea what the OS/400 or i5/OS operating system are or why they should care. If this is true of the people at your company, imagine how little the people at companies who have never installed an IBM midrange box know about the System i5 and i5/OS. READ MORE >

As I See It: Taking Care
by Victor Rozek

It took my mother a long time to die. It wasn't quick and tidy like Bing Crosby collapsing on the golf course while playing the game he loved. Her decline was lengthy, and difficult, and sometimes unpleasant. And, as the only child, the responsibility for her care fell to me. There were days when her problems were so consuming and overwhelming that I thought there was not enough time or money in the whole world to solve them. Of course, the biggest problem wasn't solvable at all--she was dying--and no amount of visits, or medications, or trips to the doctor, or changes in caregivers would ultimately fix that. READ MORE >