IBM Sharpens Its Edge With “Bonnell” Entry Power10 System

May 8, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Through the many years that we have been following the OS/400 and IBM i platform, we have always been an advocate for powerful entry machines that act as a feeder into the larger machines into which customers might grow. Somewhere between 1988 and 2008, Moore’s Law outpaced the capacity increases that most small IBM i shops needed, and it has been difficult to make a machine that is small enough to be useful and cheap enough to be attractive yet expensive enough to make it all worth IBM’s while.

Back in February 2017, Big Blue announced what we called the …