In our ongoing series on the people who run and program the IBM i platform and the industries where they work, we are now going to finally get to the meat of the issue: Payday for programming. Moola for managing. Greenbacks for greenscreens and for converting greenscreens to modern web and mobile interfaces. The reason why you get out of bed in the morning and go to your respective and respected work.

The data is pretty thin about salaries out there in IBM Midrange Land, but luckily for us Bob Langieri, president of Excel Technical Services and a long-time recruiter

HelpSystems CEO Chris Heim told IT Jungle that his company’s acquisition of rival IBM i software maker Tango/04 Computing Group last week marks the beginning of an aggressive push into the overseas market. The deal for Tango/04 will jumpstart HelpSystems’ presence in Southern Europe and Latin America, but there’s a lot more room for expansion, he says.

While North America is far and away the biggest market for IBM i goods and services, the platform has always enjoyed strong overseas sales and has an international presence that is arguably bigger than it is in the United States. IBM makes about

When IBM i got support for Node.js eight months ago, it lit a fire. BCD Software threw a log on that fire last week by announcing its Web development environment WebSmart supports Node.js as well. It’s a beta project now, but if things go according to plan WebSmart for Node.js will be generally available in three months. Will the open source Node.js be as popular in the IBM midrange community as open source PHP? We will have to see how that plays out.

Node.js applications can be rendered on desktops, tablets and smartphones when BCD releases WebSmart Node.js.

IBM’s support

In the past year, the IBM channel has experienced 25 percent growth on Power, according to an executive at Avnet, one of IBM’s dominant sales channel partners. Workloads attributed to business analytics, high performance business computing, and management of big data–all the areas that IBM predicted would make a difference–are driving the gains. Managed service providers are getting some of the credit, but on-premise upgrades for customers are in on this, too.

Richard Martinez’s business card identifies him as supplier business executive for IBM Power at Avnet, which along with Arrow Electronics, is one of IBM’s biggest business

In case you did not notice it, there is a new year here in 2016 and Big Blue has spent what must have been a fortune putting a new mobile-tuned website together for itself. I am going to show my age a bit here, but mobile formats are fine for a phone, and on a web screen they might be slick and slippery, but they are also shouty and devoid of actual data. Call me a misplaced man of letters, but I like text.

Just for the hell of it, I went poking around the new IBM website to see