Whaaa? IBM Gets Stingier with Power Systems Deals
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

We are in the heart of the fourth quarter with questionable stats in the Western economies and very good growth in the emerging markets in China, India, Russia, Brazil, and a handful of other countries. With Power Systems revenue on the decline year-on-year, and against a pretty easy compare mind you, I would expect that IBM would be out there wheeling and dealing to crank up Power Systems sales. But thus far, Big Blue is behaving like it thinks it has its pricing right--or perhaps like it was a bit too aggressive on the pricing with this year's Power7 iron, in fact. READ MORE >

iManifest U.S. Adds Halverson to Build Membership, Awareness
by Dan Burger

It's been more than a year since the IBM i community in the United States took its first steps toward marketing the platform in the wake of Big Blue's decision to concentrate on non-platform specific marketing. Success has not been meteoric. There was no reason to believe that it would be. However, by anyone's measurements, iManifest U.S. has been virtually at a standstill. Can anyone power up this organization? Another person is going to try. READ MORE >

Legacy-Loving Attachmate Shells Out $2.2 Billion for Novell
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

When the top brass at Novell hammered a For Sale sign on the piece of grass at its Waltham, Massachusetts, headquarters back in May after rejecting an unsolicited $2 billion takeover bid from private equity firm Elliott Associates in March, it was pretty clear that bits and pieces of Novell could end up hither and yon and other companies haggled over pieces of the complex software company. READ MORE >

As I See It: There's No Place Like Work
by Victor Rozek

Way back in the last century, 13 years before the world was scheduled to end because of a computer glitch, William Greider published a book. It was an 800-page scholarly tome that, I suspect, not many people actually read, but which today is more relevant than it was back when nobody was reading it. READ MORE >