• iSociety Chat: Preparing for the Move to i5/OS V6R1

  September 17, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  This Wednesday, the iSociety i5/OS and OS/400 community will host a chat that that your programmers and system administrators should probably listen in on if your company has any plans to move to i5/OS V6R1 when it becomes available next year. Paul Gotland, the software development engineer from the Rochester Lab who is intimately familiar with the inner workings of the microcode, technology independent machine interface, and compilers of the AS/400, iSeries, and System i servers, will be hosting a fireside chat on the things people have to do to prepare for the move to V6R1. We covered the program

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• Ask TPM: What About System/3X Compilers in i5/OS V6R1?

  September 17, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Our experts over at Four Hundred Guru get asked a lot of questions and they provide a lot of good answers. But some of your questions are of a strategic or tactical nature. So if you have a question you want to get my take on–or you want to use me to get a straight answer out of the people in IBM who know what is going on–then send me an email and I will see what I can do. Here’s a recent question I got about compilers. Hey, TPM: I note that you have written on the issue of

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• LANSA Packages Modernization; Leasing Covers it All

  September 17, 2007 Dan Burger

  All it takes is time and money. That’s an apt summation for just about any IT project, but is particularly true about application modernization, a project that is on the minds of many IT managers in iSeries shops. For most of them, it’s a determination of how much effort it requires, how that effort can be applied with existing staff, and how it fits into a workable budget. Alleviating those concerns is the benefit LANSA believes it has built into a new program it has introduced with the cooperation of Avnet and IBM. LANSA calls this program the Lease

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• HP Beats the System i on Integration for Midrange Shops

  September 17, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  As readers of the IT Jungle family of newsletters know full well, I am a hardware junkie and I am impressed when someone does something clever and useful with a piece of machinery. There are tens of thousands of hardware engineers worldwide designing and implementing sophisticated ideas, turning them into real objects, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for what they do. But I also find it equally mystifying why some ideas, which are obvious as far as I am concerned, take so blasted long to get implemented by server makers. Such is the case with blade servers

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• Rumored Layoffs at IBM Rochester Not True

  September 17, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  For the past couple of weeks, people have been asking me if there have been layoffs inside of IBM‘s Rochester, Minnesota, facility, where the System i and System p Power-based servers are manufactured for the North American market. These rumors are not true, according to sources at the company. In the early part of the summer, I heard second-hand from an ex-IBMer who went on a tour of the facility while wheeling around the country on vacation, and what I was told is that there was not a lot of activity on the factory floor, which looked empty. At

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• Ask TPM: What About System/3X Compilers in i5/OS V6R1?

  September 17, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Our experts over at Four Hundred Guru get asked a lot of questions and they provide a lot of good answers. But some of your questions are of a strategic or tactical nature. So if you have a question you want to get my take on–or you want to use me to get a straight answer out of the people in IBM who know what is going on–then send me an email and I will see what I can do. Here’s a recent question I got about compilers. Hey, TPM: I note that you have written on the issue of

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• LANSA Packages Modernization; Leasing Covers it All

  September 17, 2007 Dan Burger

  All it takes is time and money. That’s an apt summation for just about any IT project, but is particularly true about application modernization, a project that is on the minds of many IT managers in iSeries shops. For most of them, it’s a determination of how much effort it requires, how that effort can be applied with existing staff, and how it fits into a workable budget. Alleviating those concerns is the benefit LANSA believes it has built into a new program it has introduced with the cooperation of Avnet and IBM. LANSA calls this program the Lease

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• HP Beats the System i on Integration for Midrange Shops

  September 17, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  As readers of the IT Jungle family of newsletters know full well, I am a hardware junkie and I am impressed when someone does something clever and useful with a piece of machinery. There are tens of thousands of hardware engineers worldwide designing and implementing sophisticated ideas, turning them into real objects, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for what they do. But I also find it equally mystifying why some ideas, which are obvious as far as I am concerned, take so blasted long to get implemented by server makers. Such is the case with blade servers

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  Read more

• Rumored Layoffs at IBM Rochester Not True

  September 17, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  For the past couple of weeks, people have been asking me if there have been layoffs inside of IBM‘s Rochester, Minnesota, facility, where the System i and System p Power-based servers are manufactured for the North American market. These rumors are not true, according to sources at the company. In the early part of the summer, I heard second-hand from an ex-IBMer who went on a tour of the facility while wheeling around the country on vacation, and what I was told is that there was not a lot of activity on the factory floor, which looked empty. At

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• EGL: The Future of Programming for the System i?

  September 17, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The IT managers cut the checks in the data center world, but the programmers and system analysts do the work to make machinery turn into the software that controls how the business operates. The programmers are the ones who have the brains to actually make the complex code that allows businesses to be simplified and automated, and it is an unwise vendor that antagonizes the programmers on its systems and a wise one that tries to court as many programmers as possible to a platform. The IT managers may write the checks, but programmers have the most influence over what

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