• IBM Ready to Announce Power6-Based System i Box

  July 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  During IBM‘s conference call with Wall Street analysts last week, the company’s chief financial officer, Mark Loughridge, confirmed the rumors that have been going around that IBM would be soon announcing a Power6-based server with the System i moniker on it. Specifically, Loughridge said it would be announced later in the third quarter, but he might just as well have said sooner in the third quarter because the announcement is, in fact, tomorrow. IBM has only announced one Power6-based server so far, a System p 570 server that has been tweaked to support the Power6 chip instead of the

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• IBM Ready to Announce Power6-Based System i Box

  July 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  During IBM‘s conference call with Wall Street analysts last week, the company’s chief financial officer, Mark Loughridge, confirmed the rumors that have been going around that IBM would be soon announcing a Power6-based server with the System i moniker on it. Specifically, Loughridge said it would be announced later in the third quarter, but he might just as well have said sooner in the third quarter because the announcement is, in fact, tomorrow. IBM has only announced one Power6-based server so far, a System p 570 server that has been tweaked to support the Power6 chip instead of the

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• IBM Ready to Announce Power6-Based System i Box

  July 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  During IBM‘s conference call with Wall Street analysts last week, the company’s chief financial officer, Mark Loughridge, confirmed the rumors that have been going around that IBM would be soon announcing a Power6-based server with the System i moniker on it. Specifically, Loughridge said it would be announced later in the third quarter, but he might just as well have said sooner in the third quarter because the announcement is, in fact, tomorrow. IBM has only announced one Power6-based server so far, a System p 570 server that has been tweaked to support the Power6 chip instead of the

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• Shearer Talks About System i Sales, Server Reorganization

  July 23, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  It has been a long time since the i5/OS and OS/400 platform has been the bright spot in IBM‘s quarterly financial results. Two decades ago, when we were just starting to exit the System/3X era and beginning the development that would result in the AS/400 era in IBM’s midrange systems, it would have been hard to predict with any certainty just how popular the AS/400 would turn out to be. And it would have been equally hard, only a few years later, to predict how tough the entry and midrange server market has become for the venerable OS/400 platform,

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• IBM Creates New Power, SMB Server Divisions

  July 23, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  For the past decade and a half, IBM‘s two midrange server lines–formerly the AS/400 proprietary server line and the RS/6000 Unix server line but now known as the System i and the System p, respectively–have been on a course to merge. First, they started supporting similar APIs, then similar Power processors, then the exact same hardware, including Power processors, memory, disks, and other peripherals. Then, they started supporting each others’ respective i5/OS and AIX operating systems. It would be logical to assume that eventually the System i and System p brands would eventually fall by the wayside and there

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• IDC Expects Virtualization Services Market to Double by 2011

  July 23, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Back in the stone age of computing technology, whenever a new technology came to market, customers spent a fortune acquiring it and then vendors eagerly helped customers install it as part of the product’s acquisition cost. In the modern computing era, products are relatively inexpensive and wickedly complex, and customers have to pay a fortune to get a vendor or a third party to help wrangle with the installation and configuration of the products they buy. So it will be, according to IDC, with virtualization products. Generally speaking, virtualization involves taking servers or storage and slicing them up into

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• Rumor Du Jour: i5/OS on Other Platforms? Not!

  July 23, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The midrange press was abuzz a little last week about the prospect of IBM porting the i5/OS operating system to other platforms. While this would be an interesting development, and one that would quite possibly breathe some new life into the i5/OS and OS/400 platform, it turns out, alas, that such talk is not true and is the result of a misunderstanding of some comments made by an IBM executive at a user group meeting. It all started when Elaine Lennox, the vice president of marketing for what has been called the System i division until last Thursday and which

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• AMR Research Bullish on ERP Software Market

  July 23, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Worldwide ERP software sales grew by 14 percent in 2006 to $28.8 billion, according to a recent report from IT analyst firm AMR Research. While 2006 was “spectacular,” according to AMR, the good times should continue to roll for the next five years, with an average annual growth rate of 11 percent, a percentage point more than the group predicted nine months ago. At least once a year, and sometimes more, AMR publishes a report analyzing the past, the present, and the future of the market for ERP and related software, and ranking the top enterprise software vendors by

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• IBM Turns In Its Best Second Quarter in Six Years

  July 23, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  IT industry bellwether IBM had a tough first quarter in 2007, with its business in the United States slowing down. But in the second quarter, Big Blue’s U.S. unit rebounded as much as IBM said it might earlier this year, while overseas markets continued to grow as the U.S. dollar continued to be weak. The upshot is that IBM has turned in its best second quarter in revenue and profit growth since 2001, when the bloom was just coming off the dot-com rose. In the second quarter, IBM had sales of $23.8 billion, up 8.6 percent, with three of its

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• JDA Picks Up Midrange Veteran Ferrere

  July 23, 2007 Alex Woodie

  JDA Software, a developer of i5/OS- and Windows-based enterprise software for retailers, has hired midrange veteran Larry Ferrere to be its new senior vice president of product management and chief marketing officer, the company announced recently. Ferrere’s resume includes stints at two well-respected OS/400 ISVs: J.D. Edwards (now part of Oracle) from 1992 to 1997, and Manhattan Associates, where he was CMO and vice president of sales operations, from 2004 through 2006. Along the way, Ferrere worked at several other tech firms, including Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) from 1981 to 1992; Vastera, an ERP software

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