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Happy Holidays From All Of Us To All Of You

December 9, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Every year has its own twists, turns, and challenges for any company and for the people who comprise that company. Over the years, we have had our share of adversity. 2019 and 2020 and 2024 were tough years for us, and we are all frankly happy to have pushed through the to end of this one so we can hit reset and attack 2025 with the usual vim and vigor.

No matter where you are, everybody gets their turn with adversity, and if hard times have come to you, we just want to know that we feel you. Do your …
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Happy Holidays To You And Yours From Us And Ours

December 11, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

First of all, thank you.

It is a great privilege and an honor to do the work we do for the IBM i and Power Systems customer base and the software vendors, hardware sellers, and service providers who also serve customers like you. If history has demonstrated nothing else in the more than five decades of IBM midrange computing, it is that we are one single ecosystem, that we are all in this together and always have been.

We did a little bit more content earlier this year, and so that means we can get our Christmas break a little …
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OK, This Really Is The Last Of Power Systems Announcements For 2022

December 19, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We are winding down for 2022, and you are very likely doing the same. There are a few more things we need to go over to close out the year.

In announcement 122-127, from December 13, IBM has announced that its IBM i subscription offering, which is paired with the subscription-priced Power S1014 that was hinted at during the July announcements and fully fleshed out in September.

With the changes, IBM is delivering three year and five year terms for initial subscription contracts, complementing the one year and four year contracts that were initially available. These three-year and five-year …
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Happy Holidays To All Of You From All Of Us

December 19, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

After two years in pandemic-induced isolation, things got back to something close to normal in 2022. Which was a relief as well as a bit exasperating. It is hard to know what to trust as any trend anymore.

For my family, which got whacked by “Delta” SAR-CoV-2 back in December 2019 after I took the three older kids to Chinatown in New York City for the holidays, we managed to avoid it since lock down in March 2020. But just before traveling to see family on Thanksgiving, where we have several immunocompromised relatives, we got the “Omicron” variant and had …
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2021 Almost Done, Happy Holidays From IT Jungle To Everyone

December 15, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

As far as I can tell, it is really March 654^th, 2020 as we bring the 31^st volume of The Four Hundred to a close here in what people are still calling 2021 for nostalgia’s sake. We are grateful to have served another year for the IBM i community, and we look forward not only to a well-deserved rest but also to building up some reserves of energy during the holiday season to take on 2022.

By all indications, it looks like 2022 will be an interesting year for the Power Systems platform, with entry and midrange …
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Happy Holidays From All Of Us To All Of You

Happy Holidays To You And Yours From Us And Ours

OK, This Really Is The Last Of Power Systems Announcements For 2022

Happy Holidays To All Of You From All Of Us

2021 Almost Done, Happy Holidays From IT Jungle To Everyone

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