More Details on the Entry Power7 Rollout
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

I told you last week that five new Power7-based systems--four small ones and the big iron Power 795 boxes--were coming out on August 17. It didn't take long for people to start helping me put together a little more of the launch plans for the remainder of the Power7 rollout for 2010. It was kinda funny how the veil kept lifting a bit higher and higher as the week went on. READ MORE >

IBM Revenues Hurt By Server Transitions and Currency in Q2
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Wall Street just can't get used to the fact that IBM doesn't care all that much about revenues or bookings or other indicators of business so long as it hits its revenue targets for the quarter and is on track for whatever this year's earnings per share goals are. That's how the top brass at Big Blue get their compensation and bonuses, after all. Still, Wall Street was expecting IBM to do better than $23.7 billion in sales in the second quarter, up 2 percent, and $3.39 billion in net income, up 9.1 percent. READ MORE >

Wanted: An AS/400-Centric System of Systems
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

IBM had the right idea all along, perhaps, but lost it somewhere along the way--maybe when the AIX people took over the Power platform three years ago and stopped listening to what the OS/400 people were saying. That idea, which was a competitive reflex to the intense competition coming from low-cost X86 servers in the early 1990s, was to turn the AS/400 system into the central management hub and database server for X86-based co-processors running NetWare, OS/2, Windows, and Linux. READ MORE >

As I See It: Rolling the Rock
by Victor Rozek

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was condemned to roll a huge stone up a hill. Each time he neared the top, the stone would escape his grasp and roll back down. Up, down, and back up. So it would go for all eternity: The frustration of meaningless work. READ MORE >