• Merrill Lynch Estimates IBM iSeries and System i Sales for Q1

  May 1, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Because IBM doesn’t give out sales figures for its various server product lines as part of its quarterly financial results, we have to rely on the sales models developed by analysts like IDC and Gartner or brokerage houses like Merrill Lynch to try to get a sense of what happened in Big Blue’s server businesses. IDC and Gartner tend to look back a quarter, but Richard Farmer at Merrill Lynch got his estimates out the day after IBM reported its financials. And the numbers are interesting. Two weeks ago, IBM reported that System i and iSeries server sales were down

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• The Hardware Foundry

  May 1, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Sometimes in life, you have to put up or shut up. You have to put your money where your mouth is. You have to lead, even if you don’t have the time. You have to try something that you think is right–or, might be right, but you’re not sure–even if a lot of other people say you are crazy, or if they listen quietly and are not enthusiastic about the idea because they don’t see what you do. This happens a few times in a good life, and that is what I face as I launch something I have called

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• IBM and Partners Target Casinos with the System i

  May 1, 2006 Mary Lou Roberts

  There was a time when the casino industry was the exclusive turf of the OS/400 platform, thanks to a number of strong and established application providers who provided the hotel and gaming industry with the core solutions they needed to turn the key with software on a secure and reliable platform. To be sure, the industry is still dominated by OS/400 applications, although Microsoft has been blasting some holes in the fortifications of one of the iSeries’ biggest strongholds. IBM and its partners are fighting back. Chip McClelland, IBM’s senior marketing manager for System i, claims that the iSeries is

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• AttachmateWRQ Pays $495 Million for NetIQ

  May 1, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The consolidation continues apace in the software industry, and last week privately held AttachmateWRQ announced to its customers that it has acquired public company and security software provider NetIQ for a tidy sum of $495 million. This marks the third big acquisition that a group of venture capitalists have teamed up on together, beginning with WRQ in December 2004 and Attachmate in April 2005. It also marks the end of the public and independent life of NetIQ, which was founded in September 1995 in San Jose, California, and which went public just as the dot-com boom was roaring at full

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