IBM's Power6 Gets First Silicon as Power5+ Looms
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

The word on the street is that IBM last month achieved first silicon on its forthcoming Power6 chip, due in servers perhaps in late 2006 and maybe in early 2007, just as it is getting ready to ship a kicker to the current Power5, appropriately called the Power5+ chip. The rumors have it that Big Blue is getting ready to launch the Power5+ in its pSeries AIX-based server line in September or October, which is consistent with past announcements and customer expectations. READ MORE >

The Many Pros and Few Cons of iSeries Logical Partitioning
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

I have been writing about the increasingly sophisticated logical partitioning capabilities of the AS/400 and iSeries family of servers for over six years now, and all I can tell you is this: you really should consider a move to Power5 technology and the latest iteration of dynamic logical partitioning. There is a lot more to what IBM has done than meets the eye in the iSeries i5 announcement letters, product brochures, and stories such as the ones I have written. READ MORE >

ISVs Offer Six-Month Report Card on iSeries Innovation Program
by Mary Lou Roberts

In an early summer press release, IBM boasted of the "early successes" of its business partner program targeted to help ISVs and tool partners develop software applications and tools for the iSeries. At that point, Big Blue claimed that the Initiative for Innovation program, launched in February and heralded to rousing applause at COMMON in March, had delivered more than 180 new modernized applications. READ MORE >

Mad Dog 21/21: The Grinchy Code
by Hesh Wiener

It's a shame Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, didn't come from a city called Milan; he hails from Helsinki. Milan, Italy, is where Leonardo da Vinci spent some of his most productive years. Milan, Ohio, is where Thomas Edison was born. Da Vinci and particularly Edison were good at exploiting their inventions for commercial ends, while Torvalds has left the exploitation to the distribution and support outfits. The result has been a regressive economic structure, rewarding populists with cheap, standardized X86 and now X64 systems while punishing those who are wedded to proprietary hardware. READ MORE >

   But Wait, There's More

IBM Hires New iSeries Sales Exec for Latin America . . . IDC Projects IT Spending to Grow 5.9 Percent Through 2009 . . . GST Launches i5 and p5 Configuration Center . . . Midrange Performance Group Signs Up Resellers . . . COMMON Gives Interim Director Gervasi the Executive Director Job . . . Windows 2000 Worm Wreaks Havoc . . . Intel to Debut New Chip Architecture at Fall IDF . . . READ MORE >

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