Don’t Wait Until 2008, Kick It Up to 11 in 2007
November 27, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan
The latest rumor running around the System i community, which has not in any way been substantiated by IBM, is that the next round of i5/OS software and System i hardware announcements will be pushed to 2008. IBM executives have been prepping the System i community to expect the Power6 processors first in the System p AIX-Linux server line, but having no substantial announcements in the System i line would be unprecedented. And it is also a bad idea for the i5/OS and OS/400 ecosystem. Heaven only knows what motivates server vendors to do what they do, to pick |