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March 4, 2009  3:33 AM

System i News – Who Pulled the plug on my POWER?



Posted by: David Vasta
David on IBM i, David on POWER, System i News

LINK:: System i News - Who pulled the plug on my Power? "Sadly, I think IBM forgot its own POWER equation. It should have been IBM i + AIX + Linux + Proper Marketing = World Domination via Power. Instead,...

January 23, 2009  1:21 PM

IBM Closes 2008 on a High, i Sales Unclear – IT Jungle



Posted by: David Vasta
David on IBM i, IBM News

LINK :: IBM Closes 2008 on a High, i Sales Unclear - IT Jungle

Wall Street got a chance to catch its breath a little yesterday after the market closed when

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January 2, 2009  4:21 PM

Biased CIOs spend more money and don’t solve problems, they create them



Posted by: David Vasta
Bad CIO, Bias, Consolidation, David on IBM i, David on Windows, i on Power, IBM, IBM i, Linux in System i, Linux on POWER, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Save Money, Stupid CIO, System i

What happens when an IBM AS/400, iSeries, System i, i5/OS, POWER System, Lotus Domino/Notes) IT shop doing fine, keeping the company running and is stable, has happy employees, happy users and then out of no where a new CIO or IT Manager is hired who:

  1. Does not understand IBMs offering...


December 29, 2008  6:39 PM

What “i” want in 2009



Posted by: David Vasta
David on IBM i, David on System i, i, i for business, i on Power, IBM i

Over the years the "i" people have wanted  for many things. The want list is long and heavy every year with the same things, and every year like a fat person on a diet for the first two days of the year, it falls apart the first time you drive by Krispy Kreame and the "HOT" light is on. Every year...


December 22, 2008  9:46 PM

Why isn’t IBM building things like this for the IBM i?



Posted by: David Vasta
David on IBM i, i, IBM i, IBM News, Lotus, Lotus Domino, Lotus Notes

We need sales to go up, we need exposure to go up, we need education to go up and we need CIOs to know that the IBM i is the most reliable, dependable and most ROI system on the planet! Yet if you were to look at what IBM is doing to get that word out you would think they were the ones needing the...


November 28, 2008  3:18 PM

Would you want to see video blogging here?



Posted by: David Vasta
Blogging, David on IBM i, David on System i, Just Blogging

I have been playing with video blogging, and wondered if that would be something you would want to see here?


November 13, 2008  1:20 AM

Ross Mauri – Chat Transcript from iSociety



Posted by: David Vasta
David on IBM i, Fire Side Chat, i on Power, iSociety, POWER Systems

Ross Mauri is the new POWER SYSTEM Exec at IBM over all the POWER SYSTEMS. iSociety held a fireside chat with him to find out how things are going at IBM with the new single hardware platform, POWER! Here is the Transcript @...

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November 12, 2008  9:42 PM

The Father of the now IBM i, Frank Soltis, is not working at IBM anymore



Posted by: David Vasta
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Frank Soltis, the father of the IBM AS/400 in 1988, is rumored to not be working at IBM anymore. Let go or whatever, it's hard news for a person like me to stomach. It's pretty sad really. Frank has always been that rock star engineer who quantified the IBM i. He was the corner stone and in person...


November 5, 2008  12:17 AM

IBM Get your i act together please



Posted by: David Vasta
David on IBM i, i on Power, IBM Drive-Thru, IBM News

I was riding home from work in my car and on the radio came an IBM i ad, or maybe I should say a System i ad. It was one of the IBM Drive-Thru commercials that I truly do like, but in the end they were still selling the System i Express? IBM if you plan of anyone taking you seriously in the IBM i...


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