• Server Sales Up a Bit in 2006, But Q4 Looks a Bit Weak

  February 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Sometimes, it is not what people say that matters, but what they don’t say. The analysts at Gartner and IDC usually race to call each past quarter’s server sales by revenue, shipments, and platform type. But this time around, only Gartner has thus far released numbers, and as it did last year at this time, the company is talking about all four quarters of 2006 instead of singling out the fourth quarter. Uh-oh. It looks like the multi-core processors and integrated virtualization features in modern server platforms might be starting to have the constricting effects on the server revenue stream

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• Midrange LUGs Are Changing the Way They Operate

  February 26, 2007 Dan Burger

  Adapt or die. The words represent the harsh reality of local user group (LUG) existence in the IBM System i community, which still often refers to itself with the collective moniker “the IBM midrange.” Since the later part of 2006, LUGs in two major metropolitan areas–Denver and Phoenix–have discontinued their operations. In other locations, LUGS are struggling to survive. There are strongholds, however, and they are doing relatively well with membership totals in the hundreds, regular meetings that are well attended, and annual tech conferences that are successful endeavors. The difference between success and failure can be attributed to a

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• Shield Advanced Solutions Is Looking for European Resellers for JobQGenie

  February 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Canadian i5/OS and OS/400 systems management software provider Shield Advanced Solutions, which is based in Toronto, is looking for some help to expand sales of its JobQGenie product into Europe. Back in April 2006, Shield Advanced Solutions announced JobQGenie Version 5, an update of its add-on for i5/OS and OS/400 systems that helps monitor and manage batch jobs. Such management is particularly tricky in high availability clusters that failover or are rolled over manually when batch jobs are running or are poised to start. To help build out its European partner network, the company has launched a new Web

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• Tango/04 Taps Moores Rowland Consulting for Distribution in India

  February 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Tango/04 Computing Group, the Barcelona, Spain, provider of systems management, monitoring, and security software for the OS/400 and i5/OS platform, said last week that it has inked a deal to begin distributing its products in India. The deal was done with Mumbai-based Moores Rowland Consulting, which is a unit of a conglomerate called the Haribhakti Group, an accounting firm that was founded in 1951 and which has expanded into a large, multifaceted accounting and consulting firm that spans the gamut of business and technology services. The Moores Rowland Consulting unit provides information technology consulting and information systems risk

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• CoralTree Gives Away Renaissance App Dev Framework for System i

  February 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Here’s something that came to us from a poster in our IT Jungle Forums. CoralTree Systems, a System i5 application modernization specialist based in Fareham (a burg in Hampshire, England), has taken an RPG-Web application framework that it developed and released it as a freebie tool to the i5/OS and OS/400 community. That framework, which is called the Renaissance Framework, is distributed under the Mozilla MPL license. The framework includes elements of ILE RPG IV, service programs, JavaScript, HTML, and the integrated Apache Web server on System i5 and iSeries platforms that allow programmers to create Web front

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• IBM Kills Off VXA, Older Tape Drives for Systems i5s

  February 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Buried in the System i5 announcements from February 6 was a note from IBM that explained the vendor was going to be killing off its entry VXA tape drives for the System i5 line. This may come as something of a surprise to System i5 customers looking for inexpensive but reasonably fast tape technology for their systems. The VXA tape drive is a descendant of the very popular 8 mm Sony tape drive that was commercialized for the computer business by the formerly independent and once high-flying Exabyte, which was acquired by rival Tandberg Data. Tandberg, of course, supplies

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• As I See It: Disorderly Conduct

  February 26, 2007 Victor Rozek

  Can you focus? Can you read this article without bits of your attention splitting off like excess electrons? Is your concentration stronger than the pull of distractions? Mine isn’t. I wish I could write my articles in one sitting, but usually I can’t. My mind wanders and my body follows. The kitchen needs tidying; the mail waits to be retrieved; Bill Moyers is on the radio and I revel in the reminder that wisdom has not perished from public discourse. And because I work at home, I can indulge myself. In the winter, the sun is the worst distraction of

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• Server Sales Up a Bit in 2006, But Q4 Looks a Bit Weak

  February 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Sometimes, it is not what people say that matters, but what they don’t say. The analysts at Gartner and IDC usually race to call each past quarter’s server sales by revenue, shipments, and platform type. But this time around, only Gartner has thus far released numbers, and as it did last year at this time, the company is talking about all four quarters of 2006 instead of singling out the fourth quarter. Uh-oh. It looks like the multi-core processors and integrated virtualization features in modern server platforms might be starting to have the constricting effects on the server revenue stream

  …

  Read more

• Midrange LUGs Are Changing the Way They Operate

  February 26, 2007 Dan Burger

  Adapt or die. The words represent the harsh reality of local user group (LUG) existence in the IBM System i community, which still often refers to itself with the collective moniker “the IBM midrange.” Since the later part of 2006, LUGs in two major metropolitan areas–Denver and Phoenix–have discontinued their operations. In other locations, LUGS are struggling to survive. There are strongholds, however, and they are doing relatively well with membership totals in the hundreds, regular meetings that are well attended, and annual tech conferences that are successful endeavors. The difference between success and failure can be attributed to a

  …

  Read more

• Shield Advanced Solutions Is Looking for European Resellers for JobQGenie

  February 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Canadian i5/OS and OS/400 systems management software provider Shield Advanced Solutions, which is based in Toronto, is looking for some help to expand sales of its JobQGenie product into Europe. Back in April 2006, Shield Advanced Solutions announced JobQGenie Version 5, an update of its add-on for i5/OS and OS/400 systems that helps monitor and manage batch jobs. Such management is particularly tricky in high availability clusters that failover or are rolled over manually when batch jobs are running or are poised to start. To help build out its European partner network, the company has launched a new Web

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