Big Blue Provides Extended Support For IBM i 6.1
April 20, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan
Operating systems do not last forever, but they can and do go on for a long, long time in the corporate datacenter–at least the way operating systems, databases, and applications are configured in monolithic fashion these days. In other realms of corporate computing, companies are thinking about moving to lightweight software containers that wrap around microservices and heavier pieces of code, allowing for the operating system underneath the container to be updated without messing with the system and application code running in the container. But most of us don’t live in that world and we are wrestling with monoliths and |