• The IBM i Marketplace Survey Is Open For You

  October 5, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  How many times a day do people tell you what you know matters? Well, it does, and I am telling you. But that knowledge of your IBM i environment is not doing anyone any good, stuck inside of your noggin. To get a realistic sense of what is actually going on out there in IBM i Land, we need you to pipe up.

  The 9^th annual IBM i Marketplace Survey that HelpSystems does every fall is open, and will be for a few more weeks. But we don’t want you to wait until the last minute to participate. Please …

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• We Need Some Insight From You

  October 3, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  What you are doing – and what you are not doing – with you IBM i platform is important to us. And that is why we are asking you to take the 9^th annual IBM i Marketplace Survey that HelpSystems does every fall.

  This survey, which was conceived of by the late Dan Burger of IT Jungle and Tom Huntington of HelpSystems, was started nine years ago because we were all frustrated by the lack of insight about the IBM i base.

  The data that this survey gathers is invaluable, and long-time readers of The Four Hundred know full …

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• Take A Minute, And Take The IBM i Marketplace Survey

  September 28, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Hey, you. Yeah, we mean you. You have something we need.

  It’s information. You know, the currency of the modern era. Without it, we can’t figure out where you are and where you are going, and that means we can’t figure out where the IBM i base is and where it might be going. The 9^th annual IBM i Marketplace Survey sponsored by HelpSystems every fall is open, and we need you to take a few moments right now to take the survey and tell us about your IBM i shop.

  This survey, which was conceived of by …

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• It’s Time To Take The IBM i Marketplace Survey

  September 26, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The 9^th annual IBM i Marketplace Survey that HelpSystems does every fall is open, and if we hope to get some insight into what is going on in the base and report back on it in January 2023, we need you to take a few moments right now to take the survey and tell us about your IBM i shop.

  This survey, which was conceived of by the late Dan Burger of IT Jungle and Tom Huntington of HelpSystems, was started nine years ago because we were all frustrated by the lack of insight about the IBM i base. …

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• Listen In To The 8th Annual IBM i Marketplace Survey Webcast

  January 26, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  It’s that time of the year again when HelpSystems reveals the results of its annual IBM i Marketplace Survey, which believe it or not has now been done eight years in a row. The survey provides a snapshot into the thinking of IBM i shops all over the world as they contemplate the strategic and tactical issues relating to their mission critical applications and the security, resilience, capacity, economics, and long-term viability of the IBM i platform that supports them.

  Personally, I sincerely wish that HelpSystems had been doing this survey since the AS/400 was launched in 1988, because it …

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• Participate In The 2020 IBM i Marketplace Survey Webcast

  January 6, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Every fall for the past six years, HelpSystems puts out the call for the IBM i community to participate in its annual survey of the base so we can find out what is going on out there in your shops. And then as the new year just gets going, the company hosts a webinar that goes over the results of the survey with commentary from a bunch of people.

  Tom Huntington, the executive vice president of technical solutions at HelpSystems, will host the webinar, and I plan to attend as do two familiar IBMers — Alison Butterill, IBM i product …

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• It’s Time To Take The IBM i Marketplace Survey Again

  October 22, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Another year has come and gone, and it is once again time to take the pulse of the IBM i community and see what is exciting and raising that pulse and what is not.

  We truly are a community, and it helps to know what is going on. IBM doesn’t provide much insight into how the Power Systems business is doing, much less the IBM i platform within it, so we have learned to rely on surveys by user groups and by the major software vendors in the community to try to figure out what is going on out there …

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• Take The IBM i Marketplace Survey

  October 2, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  In days gone by, IBM used to have a great amount of insight into what was going on at AS/400 shops. But somewhere between the iSeries and through the System i down to Power Systems running IBM i and what is, apparently, being called Db2 instead of DB2 these days, with or without i, Big Blue stopped having the kind of insight that helped us not only understand the trends in our community, but how they related – or didn’t – to the larger IT community.

  This community, which is more than a marketplace but still encompasses that, has always …

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