Re: Happy Birthday to the AS/400, iSeries, System i, IBM i

[CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx>]

  I agree that the POWER path is not in any way indicative of the 
future of the i5/OS [and now the IBM i Operating System], nor any other 
OS that can now, or may eventually, run on that architecture.

  Although I did not see any winking icon to imply sarcasm, sarcasm was 
inferred from the last comment.  So FWiW I did find on my first and only 
review, that the IBM System i 525 Express was the top recommended server 
by the /IBM Systems advisor tool/ for a request where I specified that I 
had /no preference/ for all questions which might directly imply the 
System i.  That was a search for a server that provides support for ERP, 
Database Serving, Application Serving and Collaboration & Email, using 
the /Find a server/ link from:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/express/systemsadvisor/index.html

  The number of articles for /IBM System i/ hardware [or similarly, by 
choice of Operating System] available at each of the following links, 
for i-related versus the number of articles available for other choices, 
is at least somewhat interesting:
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/partnerworld/wps/pub/systems/technical/resources
over 300 versus less than 25 for each of the others
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/partnerworld/wps/pub/systems/training/courses
over 90 versus less than 3 for each of the others
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/partnerworld/wps/pub/systems/technical/roadmaps
30 versus 6 or fewer for each of the others

Regards, Chuck

Neil Palmer wrote:
> Those who paid careful attention to what Dr. Frank did and didn't say
> this morning may have noticed that he did not talk about the future
> of "S/38 - AS/400 - iSeries - System i - i" at all.  He merely talked
> about the future of POWER and programming changes needed to exploit
> that technology.
>
> He made no mention at all of any future enhancements to follow "i
> 6.1.0" in "i 6.2.0" or "i 7.1.0" however I'm sure they will all be
> posted soon on an IBM web site somewhere.  Probably right next to the
> page that clearly explains to customers and prospects why "i" is
> better for their business than AIX/Linux/Windows and why they should
> choose it.