You're Only As Old As The Programs You Run With
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

How does a venerable computer system act its age? Cleverly, I think, and only when asked to. The AS/400, which has had more names than James Garner in The Rockford Files, is still the AS/400 or the 400 to most of us despite all the pressure of political correctness to adopt the IBM i name for the operating system and to not talk about the hardware platform as anything but a Power Systems platform. As if any old operating system is as good as any other. READ MORE >

KS2 Expands IBM i Managed Services Biz Into Hosting, Co-Lo
by Alex Woodie

KS2 Technologies, an IBM reseller based near Dallas, is expanding its managed services business into server co-location and hosting, the company announced last week. Under the new plans, KS2 will manage the complete IBM i environment for its customers, and even house the IBM i server in one of its data centers. READ MORE >

DB2 for i: The Beating Heart of the IBM i Platform
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

One of the things I like about Steve Will, the new chief IBM i architect, is that he likes data as much as the rest of us do. When he gives a presentation about the IBM i platform and the Power Systems servers that it runs upon, he isn't afraid to give you arts and charts and actual information to make a point. And so it is in a recent series of presentations that Will has been giving to the AS/400 faithful regarding IBM i roadmaps and other things. READ MORE >

As I See It: Nostalgic for Normal
by Victor Rozek

To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful. At least that was psychologist Carl Jung's dismissive opinion. For something that is hard to define, normal gets a bad rap. It's like being average: everyone wants to be thought of as above average, but not if it means being abnormal. READ MORE >