Re: Complete re-vamp of IBM. No more System i division.

your the marketing mouth Trevor. How does a brand survive when it
reports to two separate business units??

It seems that our future will be much more i5/OS related than
hardware specific, but since the Power6 System i 570 is on the
way, the System i has brand has some leverage yet."

On 7/19/07, Trevor Perry <trevor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

System i is a brand - including server(s) and OS.

that brand just got horizontally sliced:
http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn071907-story01.html

"...By merging the high-end System i product line with the entire
System p product line, IBM hopes to create a single,
enterprise-focused division for promoting the use of Power servers and
its AIX and i5/OS operating systems, plus Linux, as well as its DB2
and DB2/400 databases and WebSphere middleware. ..."

"...The remainder of the System i business, which includes i5 520
entry machines and i5 550 midrange machines based on Power5+
processors as well as the new user-priced i5 515 and 525 entry
servers, is now under the control of the Business Systems division
within Systems and technology Group. ..."

your the marketing mouth Trevor. How does a brand survive when it
reports to two separate business units??

This should be good for us in that the BS systems will ( hopefully )
be market priced and faster. But who is in charge of i5/OS? The OS
needs major improvements in long name support, ILE has to support
reflection and meta data, the SLS segment size has to be increased
from 16meg, applications should be able to use the associated space
of an object to store associated information, ...

-Steve