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Volume 15, Number 48 -- December 4, 2006
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The System iWant, 2007 Edition
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

The great thing about IBM's woes with the AS/400, iSeries, and System i5 products and its line of business within the Server Group, Systems Group, and now the Systems and Technology Group for the past dozen years is that there is always an opportunity to tell Big Blue how it might improve the OS/400 and i5/OS platform. It is always fun to try to figure out how IBM might do a better job of competing first against mainframes, then Unix, then Windows, and now Linux servers. READ MORE >

PwC Consultants Predict an IT Talent Shortage
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

The data centers and departments of the world's companies are not the only organizations that are constantly wrestling with developing technical talent and keeping their techies happy. The technology companies of the world--who supply us our hardware, software, telecommunications, and information services--have the same exact problem. And maybe they even have it worse, if a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers is a glimpse into the personnel management realities that technology companies are facing. READ MORE >


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Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch
by Brian Kelly

In 2005, Windows servers eclipsed Unix servers for the first time in terms of revenue, by nearly $200 million. According to IDC, over $17.7 billion worth of Windows servers and $15.5 billion in Unix servers were sold worldwide in 2005. Additionally, Linux took third place at $5.3 billion and mainframes slipped to $4.8 billion. With sales of approximately $2 billion in 2005, IBM's System i fell short of making the report. READ MORE >


The X Factor: You Can't Steal What's Free, But You Can Pay a Lot for Something That Isn't Worth It
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Back in the early 1990s, when IBM was on the rocks after its mainframe business imploded and the world shifted to cheaper Unix servers and client/server development was just getting underway, the Wall Street Journal ran a multi-page story that I have never forgotten. The story was one of hubris, of Big Blue's lack of understanding of how the market had changed so much around it that it took the company the better part of six years to find its feet again. READ MORE >





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But Wait, There's More:

Reader Feedback on As I See It: The Other "Tude" . . . Zend Puts Out Beta PHP Tools for OS/400 V5R3 . . . Gartner Predicts Half of Data Centers Will Run Out of Power by 2008 . . . Disk Array Sales Keep Revving in Q3, Says IDC . . . IBM Breaks Through 2,500 Linux Applications on Power Chips . . . BOS Reduces Its Losses in the Third Quarter, Affirms 2006 Guidance . . .



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
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
The System iWant, 2007 Edition

PwC Consultants Predict an IT Talent Shortage

Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

The X Factor: You Can't Steal What's Free, But You Can Pay a Lot for Something That Isn't Worth It

But Wait, There's More:

Reader Feedback on As I See It: The Other "Tude" . . . Zend Puts Out Beta PHP Tools for OS/400 V5R3 . . . Gartner Predicts Half of Data Centers Will Run Out of Power by 2008 . . . Disk Array Sales Keep Revving in Q3, Says IDC . . . IBM Breaks Through 2,500 Linux Applications on Power Chips . . . BOS Reduces Its Losses in the Third Quarter, Affirms 2006 Guidance . . .


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Big Iron
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Top Mainframe Stories and Vendor Announcements

Chats, Webinars, Seminars, Shows, and Other Happenings

The Windows Observer
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The Microsoft-Novell Marriage of Two Minds Starts to Go Schizo

Hitachi Brings BladeSymphony Blade Servers to North America

Mad Dog 21/21: Stay the Recourse

The Unix Guardian
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Cray, IBM Win Final Round of Giant DARPA HPCS Program

Sun Releases Java Under GPL Open Source License

As I See It: The Other "Tude"


 
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