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Why Open Source Is Critical for Digital Transformation

March 3, 2021 Alex Woodie

In 2019, digital transformation seemed like the latest buzzword to come out of the hype-heavy technology business. But in 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic upturned life as we know it, the idea took on new importance. For IBM i shops looking to stay alive in competitive markets, digital transformation is now a requirement. And according to IBM’s Jesse Gorzinski, the digital transformation path runs squarely through open source.

2020 was a bizarre year in many ways. But there’s no doubt that it was a watershed year for open source on IBM i, with the delivery of a number of significant …
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mrc Refreshes IBM i Low-Code Dev Tool

March 3, 2021 Alex Woodie

IBM i shops that use the latest release of mrc’s m-Power Web app development tool will find the tool easier to use and that applications can be developed faster than before, the company says.

mrc markets m-Power as a low-code development platform that supports IBM i and other Java platforms. The software is not a full-blown integrated development environment (IDE), the Chicago-based vendor says. But if the user is looking to quickly generate Web interfaces, dashboards, reports, portals, or mobile apps for existing IBM i applications, then it is a good fit.

The vendor says it built the new release …
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Unit Testing Automation Hits Shift Left Instead of Ctrl-Alt-Delete Cash

March 3, 2021 Nick Blamey

In this time of the coronavirus pandemic, with its dual pressures of the uncertainty of the economy at a small and global scale and the fever pitch need to rapidly modernize applications, it is hard to know where to start. Given this scale of change, as a supplier of application modernization tools that are derived from both a strong IBM i heritage and the youth and strength of open source, you might think that ARCAD Software would be most interested in selling customers its entire toolbox.

Not necessarily – the answer all depends on your starting point. There is an …
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Four Hundred Monitor, March 3

March 3, 2021 Jenny Thomas

IBM’s attention on the hybrid cloud is common knowledge by now. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna has been crystal clear that he is deeply passionate about the hybrid cloud, and some weeks the hybrid cloud dominates the news cycle. Like this week. Our IBM i Chief Architect Steve Will kicked it off with his latest blog post to clear up some of the confusion he says surrounds industry cloud strategies, which you can find as our Top Story below. Then read on for the latest on the hybrid cloud, as well as the latest IBM i resources and events.

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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 9

March 3, 2021 Doug Bidwell

Hello, good people of the IBM i Land. As so many newscasters all said across the United States earlier this week, it is hard to believe that it is March already. But it is March indeed, and it has been about a year since the coronavirus went pandemic. We hope you are well, and we hope you stay that way.

In this week’s edition of the IBM i PTF Guide, you will see that Rational Developer for i now supports an updated Java – to be specific, Java 8 SR 6 FP 15. You can find out more at …
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Why Open Source Is Critical for Digital Transformation

mrc Refreshes IBM i Low-Code Dev Tool

Unit Testing Automation Hits Shift Left Instead of Ctrl-Alt-Delete Cash

Four Hundred Monitor, March 3

Top Stories

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 9

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