Young i Professionals start Virtual Learning Center

The Young i Professionals group has launched its Virtual Learning Center, a way for IT pros go to get online tutorials on the System i platform. One of the early goals of the group was educational, and the VLC is a step in that direction. The...
What you can do to spur growth in System i

Trevor Perry writes this week about a recent System i conference he went to, and a panel session he moderated. Anyone who knows Perry knows that he complains about the complainers. That is, he criticizes those who bemoan platform name changes,...
Rochester’s support for the IBM System i

It's often good to take a look at things a year or so down the road, and that's what I did with a recent story looking back at the merger of System i and System p into Power Systems. At the time of...
Top 10, er, 20 reasons to move to IBM i 6.1

Craig Johnson at IBM Systems Magazine has his top 10 list, which morphed into a top 20 list. It starts with a push toward blades and ends with a pitch saying the OS is available...
IBM Power Systems product list getting shorter

IBM has announced that it will withdraw from marketing a bunch of Power Systems-related products starting on January 4. I counted 91 different feature numbers, so if you have an older Power-based...
Lawson Software quarterly results mixed

Lawson Software, a midrange ERP software company and a longtime System i vendor, showed some mixed results when announcing its most recent quarterly results. Total revenues for the St. Paul,...
Zend for System i now only free for the first year?

The IBM i development blog has heard from a user who has been told that Zend Core for System i is only free for the first year. Whether this is true for all customers or not is unclear, but here's a snippet of what the end user has heard from...
Planning for Power7: Some technology considerations

IBM has published a statement of direction on its web site that starts to spell out the direction it's going with the System i. Hat tip to IT Jungle for pointing...
RPG and 5250 screens are like music CDs?

The iDevelop blog has a recent post comparing the music industry to the IBM System i. In particular, it looks at how the reluctance of the music industry to embrace digital music -- instead continuing to push...