COMMON

Rest in peace, and help out Common

Timothy Prickett Morgan at IT Jungle thinks the new acronym the System i user group Common has come up with is a bit of "gallows humor." The acronym - RiP - stands for Retired i...

Top concerns of System i users in Europe

Here are the top concerns of European System i users, according to a survey taken by COMMON Europe:

1. Satisfy internal customers
2. Treat data security and confidentiality as a business risk
3. Improve IT security and...

More talk on COMMON’s future

There has been a rigorous and healthy discussion about the future of COMMON on the Internet in the past couple weeks, in light of the fact that the

COMMON board reveals financial situation at meeting of members

COMMON president, Randy Dufault presented the organization’s dire financial situation at the meeting of members on Tuesday afternoon at the COMMON 2009 Annual Meeting and Exposition. “If we were to do nothing at this point, at the end of 2009 COMMON would suffer an 800,000 dollar loss,”...

A taste of COMMON: ILE, IBM releases, Web applications and new products

Day two at COMMON 2009 is under my belt, and the level of news and information was again a bit more than I could take in. COMMON educational session tidbits I attended a session at 8 AM (without coffee) on "Taking Advantage of Capacity on Demand" for POWER Systems. The session...

COMMON 2009 annual meeting off to a running start

I awoke today in Reno, Nev., to register and cheer on the participants in COMMON User Group's first 5k run/walk for charity....

Another System i “fireside chat” today

The Common user group is hosting another webcast, which it dubs fireside chats, at its iSociety Web site. It happens later today, at 1pm Eastern, so if you're interested, sign up quickly. Here are the details:

• What: iSociety Fireside...

Common joins Web 2.0

The Common user group for System i and other IBM Power-based systems has joined the Web 2.0 fray. In addition to having a Common Facebook group page -- which had 200 members as of this morning -- it also now has a

iSociety fireside chat on CL programming

The iSociety, an online social group for IBM System i users and followers, will be holding a fireside chat later today. The group, which the user group COMMON started more than two years ago, has had a...

Frank Soltis is indeed retiring from IBM, but he’s not leaving i

About a month ago, we reported that Frank Soltis was leaving IBM at the end of the year. Soltis is considered the father/grandfather of the System i platform, having been with it basically since it started 40 years ago. First it was the System/38 and System/36, then it was the AS/400, then the...