What Vintage Is Your IBM i Wine?

April 1, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It has been a long time since we have seen a new version of the IBM i operating system, but if history is any guide, we are on the cusp of yet another release of the platform. And thanks to the way Big Blue handles updates to the software, through its Technology Refresh incremental upgrade process, this will not be as dramatic an event as updating the operating system, middleware, database, and application development tools in the stack has been throughout most of the history of the IBM midrange.

But there are plenty of OS/400, i5/OS, and IBM i shops …