April 13, 2015 Hey, TPM
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We’ve been sitting at least in the same church, if not in the same pew. Terrific article on the sellout of IBM i to private equity. I would make a couple of observations:
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April 13, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan
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IBM wants to sell a lot of Power8 iron running the Linux operating system Down Under, and it wants to do it fast. Like before the end of the second quarter, which comes to a close in June. To that end, IBM New Zealand and IBM Australia have kicked out some pretty steeply discounted iron that is sure to get the attention of prospective buyers–maybe even those who might otherwise opt for Linux on X86 machinery. Under the deal announced in Australia last week in announcement letter ZA2Z5260A, IBM is giving discounts on eight different configurations of the Power |
April 13, 2015 Dan Burger
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When IBM invests in IBM i, the database is first in line. In terms of “people hours” nothing comes close to the work being done on the database. When new versions of the operating system arrive, it’s the database that gets the greatest number of enhancements. Same with the Technology Refreshes, in almost all cases. Members of the ISV community and the Large User Group of top Power Systems companies are usually quick to take advantage, but there’s a bigger picture. The power of SQL and data-centric programming is gaining IBM i converts, maybe more so now than at any |
April 13, 2015 Alex Woodie
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For years, we’ve been told that most server workloads will eventually move to the cloud because of the economies of scale advantages that it brings. So far, the big daddy of corporate computing–the centralized Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) suite–has mostly resisted the cloud. But according to Nucleus Research, ERP is now finally succumbing to the siren call of cloud computing. We have reached a tipping point with cloud ERP, according to Rebecca Wettemann, vice president of research for Nucleus. “A lot of companies are getting to the point where their next ERP upgrade is almost a re-implementation, so they’re |
April 13, 2015 Dan Burger
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What’s it going to take to get IBM midrange shops interested in running Linux on their Power Systems boxes? The references to better resiliency, better security, and better virtual machine density, (the capability to run more virtual machines on Power) are all well and good, but that alone won’t get it done. It won’t turn the tide, which is heavily in favor of running Linux on X86. Working with the ISV community and continuing to build Linux awareness is part of the strategy. Linux has become a much bigger deal in the enterprise space than is widely recognized by people |
April 7, 2015 Aaron Bartell
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What if I told you that the best developers in the world are available to work on your next project? What if I told you that they will work for free? Well, they are and they will. In the following paragraphs, I tell you why and how. The best developers in the world will help you with your projects, for free, because of the magic of open source. Open source efforts have to rank right up there on the list of abnormalities of the human race. Why? Because so much is given away at high cost (time, which in turn |
April 7, 2015 Susan Gantner
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One of the first tips I ever wrote for Four Hundred Guru was about keyboard shortcuts for RSE. It was written so long ago, I was talking about WDSC. None of the Rational variants of the product name had come to be at that time. It even predates my downloadable cheat sheet for My Favorite Keyboard Shortcuts for RSE. As you can see if you look at the cheat sheet, I’ve added a lot more favorites since the original article. The shortcuts in those original tips still work with the recent Rational versions of RSE with one exception. |
April 7, 2015 Michael Sansoterra
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To satiate the insatiable among us, IBM continues to provide new ways for DB2 for i SQL developers and database administrators to programmatically interrogate and interact with their operating environment through the use of “services” and global variables. New “Services” Views The IBM DB2 for i Services have been a great boon to developers and administrators because they give access to information about the IBM i OS environment via the simplicity of SQL. For a brief intro to services, see my article Make Your DB2 For i Apps Environment Aware. There are several new “services” available as of IBM |
April 6, 2015 Dan Burger
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Agilysys develops one of the most industry dominate applications in the IBM i ISV territory. Its Lodging Management System (LMS) has been the standard of the gaming industry for as long as those businesses have been computerized. Casino resort operations around the world use LMS for much of their business operations. A new software release from a dominate software company is a bellwether event for IBM midrange market watchers. LMS 7.3, the first major release since 7.2 in October 2012, is highlighted by the long overdue integration with Insight Mobile Manager, a dashboard application that allows hotel managers to quickly |
April 6, 2015 Victor Rozek
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With some reluctance, I take a deep breath and begin to tiptoe into the minefield. There are topics so polarizing that no matter what opinions you express, or how benignly you express them, they are bound to spawn potent disagreement. And with the advent of social media, taking a stand on anything even slightly controversial guarantees that remote hatred will roll in with tidal inevitability. Topics like discrimination, white privilege, women, minorities, economic equity, and male domination, potentially explosive in their own right, are made incendiary when they are flogged in the pursuit of money. Which is why Ellen Pao’s |
