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IBM i Pros Available for Hire from Programmers.io

May 10, 2023 Alex Woodie

If you’re looking for someone with IBM i and RPG skills to help modernize your applications or just to keep the lights on, you might want to consider Programmers.io. You might never have heard of it, but the Texas-based company has been in the IBM i consulting business for over a decade and has built up a considerable force composed of hundreds of IBM i experts.

Programmers.io is an IT services and software development firm that employs over 600 engineers in the U.S. and India, about 280 of which are skilled in IBM i or RPG. The company got its …
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Midrange Dynamics Hooks CM Into VSCode

May 10, 2023 Alex Woodie

Developers using VSCode to create native IBM i applications can now use Midrange Dynamics’s change management (CM) software to properly track their work. Midrange Dynamics North America (MDNA) announced at the recent POWERUp conference in Denver, Colorado. MDNA says Midrange Dynamics will also support Merlin in the future.

Demand for VSCode is currently booming among the IBM i installed base, who have been clamoring for a speedier alternative to IBM’s sluggish fat client, Rational Developer for i (RDi), for a long time. Thanks to Liam Allan and his Code for IBM i extensions, which enables ILE languages in the lightweight, …
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Rimini Supports IBM i Environments with New Outsourcing Biz

May 10, 2023 Alex Woodie

Rimini Street’s new outsourcing business, Rimini ONE, supports IBM i application environments, the company confirmed to IT Jungle. In addition to delivering application support services for JD Edwards and SAP running on IBM i, the Las Vegas company is also offering to manage the full stack of technology upon which these ERP systems run.

Rimini Street has provided third-party support and maintenance services for a variety of ERP systems for over a decade. You may have recalled the epic legal battle it waged with Oracle, which accused the company of stealing its intellectual property in pursuit of its …
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Four Hundred Monitor, May 10

May 10, 2023 Jenny Thomas

“The robots are coming! The robots are coming!” If Paul Revere were here today, he might be shouting a different kind of warning. Artificial intelligence is in the news a lot these days, and you might want to start paying attention if you aren’t already. Especially after the recent revelation directly from IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, who said Big Blue could replace up to 7,800 current employees with AI. Eeek! Read on through our Top Stories for all the AI latest from IBM. You can also get the virtual scoop on what lies ahead by listening live to IBM’s annual …
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Cloud Infrastructure Spending Growing, But More Slowly

May 10, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

When you look at financials, you need to think quarterly year on year to get a sense of growth over the annual and often seasonal business cycles that drive the economy. And then you also need to think sequentially so you can see when something that is growing on its own momentum, as cloud computing has been doing for the better part of a decade, shifts to a more seasonal flow.

With the latest market figures released from hyperscaler and cloud watcher Synergy Research, whose chief analyst and managing director is John Dinsdale, dices and slices the public view of …
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IBM i Pros Available for Hire from Programmers.io

Midrange Dynamics Hooks CM Into VSCode

Rimini Supports IBM i Environments with New Outsourcing Biz

Four Hundred Monitor, May 10

Cloud Infrastructure Spending Growing, But More Slowly

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