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Former IBM AS/400 GM Tom Jarosh dies

Tom Jarosh, the former general manager of IBM's AS/400 line (when it was still called that), died Oct. 17 from melanoma. He was 55. Jarosh worked as the GM of the AS/400 line until October 2000, when he moved into other positions within IBM's server and technology group. I personally never spoke...
The database debates: DB2 vs Oracle

This fall we have been examining the power of DB2. Andrew Borts first wrote about what DB2 does on the AS/400. And Joe Pluta contributed a well-received
And there it is: System i down 82%

Or so say the revenue figures from the IBM press release on the matter, which came out late yesterday. As I wrote yesterday before the revenue numbers came out, this was precisely the reason why Ross Mauri, the Power Systems general...
System i news updates – 10/16/08

Using DB2/400 for MySQL: Alex Woodie at IT Jungle said sources have told her that IBM is working on developing DB2/400 to power MySQL, the open source database. According to the article: "When complete, the new software will enable...
Humor: IBM Galactic Empire introduces new Power server

Mid-deranged.com has a new satirical article up on its site: "IBM Announces the New Power 995 Server." Some tidbits:
With unrivaled power, it can perform an infinite loop in under 4-seconds and...
Open letter from Ross Mauri

Ross Mauri, the general manager of IBM Power Systems, recently wrote an open letter to the System i community. The point of the letter was to update System i users on the state of the platform, and perhaps to ease some of their...
Under the radar: Audax buys Bytware

Last week the private equity group Audax purchased antivirus specialist Bytware, Inc. The Audax Group owns Help/Systems and also recently
New RPG users: an oxymoron?

Like "jumbo shrimp" and "small fortune," one would probably think that "new RPG users" is an oxymoron. And if we expand that out more -- "new RPG users on the System i" -- well, that makes it seem more like one.
But that may not be the case. The folks at
Oracle rolls out JD Edwards ERP software upgrades

Oracle has updated its JD Edwards ERP software, including additions EnterpriseOne and World on the System i. The EnterpriseOne changes include a new user interface for its Tools portion to jibe with all the other Oracle interfaces,...