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Volume 15, Number 27 -- July 10, 2006
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Why Unix Experience Matters for System i5 Sales
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

A few weeks ago, when I wrote up the announcement that IBM had made to appoint Peter Small as the new director of business partner and independent software vendor channel sales for the System i platform, I said that I hoped to speak to Small as soon as he got back from vacation. We did that just prior to the July 4th holiday, and he gave me some insight into IBM's difficulties and triumphs in the Unix server market and how that experience will help pump up the System i product line. READ MORE >

Micro Memory Bank: Another System i Clone Memory Maker
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

One of the great things about the X64 server business is that there are many suppliers of servers, which affords companies the opportunity to comparison shop for machines that they want to run Windows, sometimes Linux, and rarely (but still a very large number of machines) a Unix variant. With IBM being the one and only supplier of Power-based machines on which OS/400 and i5/OS run, there is no way to get direct competition for the platform itself. READ MORE >


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Open Source RPG Apps: The 'Bright Future' That Didn't Happen
by Mary Lou Roberts

Flashback to 2002. Open source software is hot. It's the future. It's what everyone is writing and talking about. Projects and their related Web sites are popping up all over. And it wasn't just the Linux and PC folks doing the talking either. There were all kinds of open source projects for systems and application software--tens of thousands of projects, many of which called SourceForge home. READ MORE >


The X Factor: Is Memory-Based Software Pricing the Answer?
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

A year and a half ago, the IT industry was just beginning to come to the realization that the advent of multiple cores on processor chips was going to wreak havoc on software pricing. Since that time, vendors have been wrestling with how to price software on products where more and more processing elements, virtual threads, and even whole virtualized machines are zooming around dynamically inside of a single physical machine. But the answer might have been there all along: The 1s and 0s of main memory. READ MORE >





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But Wait, There's More:

High End Power5+ System p5 Launch on July 25; System i5 Machines Possible, But Not Rumored . . . Does the IBM Server Selection Tool Select the System i? . . . Storage Vendors--Minus IBM--Partner on Storage Management Standards . . . Faulty Business Data Leads to Bad Decisions, Workers Say . . . Google to Defend Net Neutrality with Antitrust Lawsuits? . . . Centerfield Technology, Innovatum Team on Database Tuning, Compliance . . .



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, Shannon O'Donnell,
Mary Lou Roberts, Victor Rozek, Kevin Vandever, Hesh Wiener, Alex Woodie
Publisher and Advertising Director: Jenny Thomas
Advertising Sales Representative: Kim Reed
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Why Unix Experience Matters for System i5 Sales

Micro Memory Bank: Another System i Clone Memory Maker

Open Source RPG Apps: The 'Bright Future' That Didn't Happen

The X Factor: Is Memory-Based Software Pricing the Answer?

But Wait, There's More:

High End Power5+ System p5 Launch on July 25; System i5 Machines Possible, But Not Rumored . . . Does the IBM Server Selection Tool Select the System i? . . . Storage Vendors--Minus IBM--Partner on Storage Management Standards . . . Faulty Business Data Leads to Bad Decisions, Workers Say . . . Google to Defend Net Neutrality with Antitrust Lawsuits? . . . Centerfield Technology, Innovatum Team on Database Tuning, Compliance . . .


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