Young i Professionals start Virtual Learning Center
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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...
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What you can do to spur growth in System i
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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,...
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Rochester’s support for the IBM System i
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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...
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Top 10, er, 20 reasons to move to IBM i 6.1
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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...
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IBM Power Systems product list getting shorter
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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...
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Lawson Software quarterly results mixed
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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,...
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Zend for System i now only free for the first year?
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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...
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Planning for Power7: Some technology considerations
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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...
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RPG and 5250 screens are like music CDs?
Profile: Mark Fontecchio
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...
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