David on IBM i

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

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,...

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

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

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

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...

What “i” want in 2009

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...

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

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...

Would you want to see video blogging here?

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

Ross Mauri – Chat Transcript from iSociety

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 @...

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

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...

IBM Get your i act together please

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...