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iSeries High Availability Should Be Integrated and Invisible
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
When the AS/400 was announced, in 1988, its was arguably the first truly integrated system. The AS/400 wove together an operating system, a relational database, and sophisticated programming languages, and on top of that sat a wide variety of applications available from IBM as well as third parties. It was this tight integration that differentiated the box from the competition and gave the AS/400 platform the total-cost-of-ownership benefits that are the hallmark of the box. READ MORE >
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IBM Offers Trade-In Deal for Model 270 Shops
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Halloween has come and gone, and the holiday season and pressure among IT vendors to boost sales in the fourth quarter are fast approaching. For several months, IBM has been running a trade-in promotion to get OS/400 shops running an AS/400 Model 7XX to upgrade to either iSeries or i5 servers, and on Friday the company launched a similar trade-in deal for customers using entry Model 270 servers that date from the same "Northstar" PowerPC AS/400 generation. READ MORE >
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Keeping i5s Current Means Updating Firmware, Too
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
I was talking to an iSeries business partner last week who said that while he was away at COMMON, his staff installed something he called "i5/OS V5R3 GA2" on his i5 server. I had never heard of that subrelease designation for OS/400, and when he said that he was concerned that he would have to update all of his customers' operating systems with this new subrelease, and have to charge them for it, I immediately set to work to figure out what was going on. READ MORE >
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Rotten to the Core: Chips, Lies, and Software Licenses
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Software licensing no longer makes sense. The anonymity of the Internet, the prevalence of distributed computing, and clever multi-core, multi-threaded processors have all screwed up software licensing in their own ways. To put it bluntly, the prices most companies pay for software licenses have little correlation to how they actually use software. This is a big problem, and it is going to take some innovative pricing and industry consensus to fix it. READ MORE >
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But Wait, There's More
IBM Launches Global Business Security Index . . . Europe Clears Oracle's Acquisition of PeopleSoft . . . Big Japanese Distributor Picks the iSeries for Warehouse Management . . . Intentia Makes Progress in Third Quarter, Looks to Operating Profit in Fourth Quarter . . . Red Hat Says Security E-Mail Is Fake . . . Some Europeans Come Out Against Software Patents . . . IDC Concurs with Offshoring Market Estimates . . . READ MORE >
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Reader Feedback
The Four Hundred readers respond to Brian Kelly's suggestions to IBM for rejuvenating the OS/400 platform; Timothy Prickett Morgan's interview with the new general manager of the eServer iSeries business; IBM's announcement of the 64-way eServer i5 Model 595; and COMMON attendees "sound off" to IBM executives . . . READ MORE >
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Editor: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Managing Editor: Shannon Pastore
Contributing Editors: Dan Burger, Joe Hertvik, Shannon O'Donnell,
Victor Rozek, Kevin Vandever, Hesh Wiener, Alex Woodie
Publisher and Advertising Director: Jenny Thomas
Advertising Sales Representative: Kim Reed
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