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The GenAI Boom Is Only Slightly Louder Than The Dot Com Boom

September 29, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

In most markets, revenues and hopefully profits go from exponential growth to log growth to linear growth in the fullness of time. We are living in the exponential phase of AI, and for GenAI in particular, where the x in y=a^x is a pretty big number and the resulting revenue growth looks like the proverbial hockey stick.

The numbers can be a bit surreal, as they seemed back in the Dot Com boom, where we turned on mainstream stores into warehouses with delivery services. With AI, we are turning the digital data of our lives into data warehouses and …
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Talking Training And Skills With System i Developer

September 29, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Between 2007 and 2021, the partners in System i Developer – Susan Gantner, Jon Paris, and Paul Tuohy – hosted two RPG & Db2 Summit events per year to help OS/400 and IBM i shops create better databases and the applications that ride atop them. The coronavirus pandemic put the kibosh on these in-person events and were, frankly, a lot of work for the partners to bring together and represented a huge financial risk as all in person events always do. (I know this from personal experience over at my other job at The Next Platform.)

But after Tuohy …
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Maybe Stopgap Your Legacy Data Issues And Wait for What’s Next?

September 29, 2025 Alex Woodie

The temptation to move off legacy systems like IBM i and System Z is overwhelming for some companies. First, there are business issues, such as enabling data integration and real-time capabilities, that older systems legitimately struggle with. Plus, the siren call from Kubernetes and microservices is getting louder. But the longer you can hold on to current systems and wait for next-gen AI-powered systems to emerge, the better off you will be.

That’s the advice being proffered by the folks at Adeptia, a 20-year-old Chicago-based technical services firm that has worked on data integration issues with many Fortune 500 …
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Stelo Touts Data Replication For IBM i In Azure Cloud

September 29, 2025 Alex Woodie

If you are in the market for data replication software for IBM i, you might want to check out Stelo (formerly StarQuest). The company has supported the IBM i server for many years, and recently announced that its software is available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

Stelo got its start back in 1992, when Paul Rampel founded StarQuest to develop data connectivity tools for IBM, Microsoft, and Cisco Systems environments. The company launched the Host Data Replicator (HDR) product in 1998, when was adapted with real-time capabilities to become the StarQuest Data Replicator (SQDR) product in 2001.

In 2022, StarQuest …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 39

September 29, 2025 Doug Bidwell

It is another quiet week in IBM i Land, where we once again have two security bulletins but also have a transition to end of support services for the Power S924.

On the security vulnerability front, we have Security Bulletin: IBM i is affected by denial of service vulnerabilities in IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty [CVE-2025-36097, CVE-2025-36047, CVE-2025-48976], which you can find out more here. Here are the patches for this issue by release:
```
IBM i Release	5770-SS1 Option 3	PTF Number(s)
7.6				        SJ06595
7.5				        SJ06596
7.4				        SJ06597
7.3				        SJ06599	
7.2				        SJ06601
```
Second, we have Security Bulletin: IBM i …
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The GenAI Boom Is Only Slightly Louder Than The Dot Com Boom

Talking Training And Skills With System i Developer

Maybe Stopgap Your Legacy Data Issues And Wait for What’s Next?

Stelo Touts Data Replication For IBM i In Azure Cloud

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 39

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