• Reader Feedback on IBM’s Q3 in Servers, Redux: The i and p Platforms Do OK

  November 3, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  You listed many areas where IBM has divested itself of revenue streams (PC, disk drives, networking, printers, etc.). There is one you left out (sort of) and it might be the most telling. A few months ago, Lenovo started offering Intel servers “based on technology licensed from IBM.” These are nearly clones of the IBM x3200, x3400, x3650, etc. This is the heart of the entry Intel server lineup from IBM. While IBM has not (yet) dropped its entry Intel servers, it’s not difficult to imagine that they might. First they license the hardware technology to Lenovo. Then they either

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• An AS400/iSeries User Group That Is Still Kicking

  November 3, 2008 Hey, TPM

  My name is Anthony Leach, Sr., and I am one of the organizers of our AS400/iSeries user group. We used to be called the Sacramento Midrange User Group or SMUG. We are now the Power Sacramento Users Group or Power SURG. We have been around for quite some time now and recently renamed ourselves to better reflect the changes to the platform. We have regular meetings at least three times a year and thanks to IBM‘s generosity, we hold these at the IBM offices in Sacramento. And anyone who is interested is welcome to attend and join up! I

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• IBM’s EGL Gets an Online User Group

  November 3, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  IBM and its software development partners that are interested in seeing its Rational development tools and the Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) that the tools kick out have established an online user group dedicated to Rational Business Developer and its EGL bolt-on, according to a notice we received from PKS Software. We didn’t find out in time to let you know about this ahead of time, but the RBD/EGL for IBM i Online User Group had a meeting on October 31 (last Friday) at 10 a.m. Eastern. The user group says that it plans to have a quarterly Web seminar

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• SAP: “Only a fool would try to predict what is going to happen”

  November 3, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Well, that title pretty much sums up the sorry state of the business world these days, right? That was Leo Apotheker, the co-chief executive officer of German application software giant SAP, when he was asked by the Wall Street Journal about projecting where the fourth quarter of 2008 might be in terms of revenues and profits. SAP reported its third quarter financial results last week, with software revenues up 7 percent to €763 million and services revenues (including software support) up 15 percent to €1,994 million. While this was pretty good given the economic environment, the numbers were supposed

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• JDA Shakes Off the Bad Economy, Sets Sales Record in Q3

  November 3, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  An economy never goes to zero, never anywhere close to that, and in hard times, some companies, for whatever reason, do better than others. While plenty of public companies are taking it on the chin financially these days thanks to the economic meltdown, JDA Software does not appear to be one of them. For the third quarter ended September 30, JDA reported $98.4 million, up 5.1 percent, with software license sales of $23 million within that total figure, up a stunning 48.4 percent. For the nine months of 2008, JDA has $284.1 million in sales, up 3.3 percent, with software

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• IBM’s Q3 in Servers, Redux: The i and p Platforms Do OK

  October 27, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  When first we practice to deceive. . . . . Since the beginning of 2008, IBM has tangled itself in a web of nonsensical numbers to report its financial results for its System i, System p, and Power Systems lines. I know that the top brass has given some bookkeeping reasons why it started calling things Legacy i and Converged System p instead of just Power Systems running i, AIX, and Linux. And as I have said since the beginning of this process, it is horse hockey. Unlike the relatively few people who have picked up on this theme and

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• So Much For That Unbundled i Compiler Tool Pricing

  October 27, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  For all of the talk about how IBM is enthusiastic about pushing the Power Systems i product into small and medium businesses, sometimes you just have to shake your head and wonder. I know a number of customers out there are doing just the same after IBM has apparently and quietly changed the pricing and bundling of its application development tools for the i platform yet again. Back on January 29, when IBM was rolling out i 6.1, IBM previewed Rational Developer for System i (RDi) Version 7.1, which has the official designation of 5733-RDI in the IBM catalog.

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• SOA Without the Middleware, Without the Pressure

  October 27, 2008 Dan Burger

  Infor, with its “Open SOA” initiative just beginning to spew out products for its massive ERP software installed base, is aiming for that customer dream of actually reducing IT complexity while increasing interoperability and reducing costs. Can it make that dream come true or does that only occur in the marketing department’s dream world? With more than 18,000 ERP software customers running on the IBM System i, and another 50,000 or so running ERP on other platforms, there are a lot of eyes on Infor. The Infor view of SOA is interesting because of its open approach, which avoids

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• As I See It: The IT Election

  October 27, 2008 Victor Rozek

  As the election draws near, the experts are again speculating about which sector of society will provide the winning margin. Will it be the undecideds, or first-time voters, or minorities who ultimately decide the course of the nation? Or perhaps our future will be fashioned by the frozen hands of hockey moms, or the lead feet of NASCAR dads, or the uppity minds of latte-sipping intellectuals. Or, who knows, maybe Chicago’s cemetery precincts will weigh in, or space aliens will drop off their absentee ballots? Or, just maybe, none of them will matter. The astute candidate will be courting another

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• Gartner Outlines the Key IT for 2009

  October 27, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  While a lot of the conversations in the board rooms, corner offices, and cubicles these days are about budgets, and the IT budget in particular since CEOs and CFOs often try to make cuts there first and make-do with the hard and soft wares they have in times of economic crisis, IT spending slows but it has never stopped. And it won’t in 2009, either. In fact, there are a whole slew of technologies that companies will deploy regardless of the economic situation–and maybe particularly if the economy continues to sour. As part of its recent Symposium/ITxpo, an annual event

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