Technology Refresh Highlighted By Development Languages And Native Flash Storage
May 6, 2015 Dan Burger
IBM‘s latest round of technology refreshments for IBM i 7.1 and 7.2 were announced last week, so I asked Steve Will and Alison Butterill to pick what they expected to be the operating systems’ most appreciated and readily implemented enhancements. Their agreed upon choices came down to support for popular development languages Java 8 and Python, plus expanded support for the data interchange format JSON, and native flash storage, which replaces virtual attached storage. Will, the chief scientist for IBM i, and Butterill, the IBM i program offering manager, have a great deal to say about what goes into |