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The Impact On IBM i Of Big Blue’s Acquisition Of Red Hat

October 31, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Well, we can honestly say that we did not see that coming when IBM and Red Hat announced late last Sunday afternoon that Big Blue would be shelling out $34 billion to acquire the world’s most successful business that peddles support for open source infrastructure software.

Ironically, at the time I happened to be writing about how IBM and Red Hat had just announced that they had brought the OpenShift Container Platform, a mashup of Docker and Kubernetes, to Power Systems machines running Linux, and I was lamenting that it was not trivial to figure out how to integrate …
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Mono Port To IBM i Now Available

October 31, 2018 Alex Woodie

IBM i shops that want to run Microsoft .NET can now do so through the Mono middleware, which was officially ported to IBM i and AIX earlier this year by the Mono community. While the port is not feature complete, Mono can now run on IBM i 7.1 and higher via the PASE AIX runtime. It’s not a native port, but it’s better than nothing.

Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET Framework, including a C# compiler and the Common Language Runtime (CLR), that allow .NET applications to run on non-Windows platforms, including Linux, MacOS, BSD, various flavors …
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Serving Up Fast, Fresche Interfaces for IBM i

October 31, 2018 Alex Woodie

“Time is money,” as Benjamin Franklin once said. With enough of either, IBM i shops could accomplish all of their modernization goals. But of course, both time and money are limited, which is why tactical tools like the Presto modernization tool from Fresche are gaining traction.

Fresche’s Presto is an IBM i modernization tool that takes 5250 output from applications and converts it on the fly into HTML that can be rendered in a standard Web browser. The software can also work with the RPG Open Access handler from IBM to power GUIs that have RPG-based back ends but …
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Four Hundred Monitor, October 31

October 31, 2018 Jenny Thomas

Double, double, toil and trouble… if we had the predictive powers of the three witches from Macbeth, we might have seen the big move by IBM to acquire Red Hat coming. Fortunately we have Monitor to round up the top stories of the week and keep you in the loop in case your crystal ball is on the fritz. Although we have a bone to pick with whomever decided that Halloween should fall on a work day, to stay in the spirit on the job today, check out the link below for a preview of IBM’s upcoming movie featuring aliens …
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The Impact On IBM i Of Big Blue’s Acquisition Of Red Hat

Mono Port To IBM i Now Available

Serving Up Fast, Fresche Interfaces for IBM i

Four Hundred Monitor, October 31

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