Cool and bummer you didn't get to me Frank.
Chuck
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[mailto:midrange-nontech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lukas Beeler
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 12:50 PM
To: Non-Technical Discussion about the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: COMMON Event V6R1 and the people around it
Today i've attended my first COMMON event in Switzerland.
Namely this one:
http://www.common.ch/index.php?id=207
Either way, my impressions:
* I was the only one under 40 (with the exception of the catering personnel)
* There were no parking spaces available. Never had that happen at an MS
Event
* Jeans+T-Shirt doesn't seem to be the usual attire for IBM technical events
The presentation itself was interesting. Looks like there are going to
be quite a few very good improvements in V6R1 - iSeries Navigator is
replaced by a Web-Based interface, and I/O Virtualization allows you
to use i5/OS partitions without a seperate disk controller for each
partition. Also, there'll be one more option to manage partitions -
this option is also the only way to manage i5/OS on blades.
All in all, the improvements in V6R1 seem nice. The speaker Kurt Rump
was also very good.
I chuckled a bit when he talked about all the "new" technology that
will be in the new Power6 machines. SAS, PCI-E, an Infiniband
derivation to replace HSL, etc. pp.
Unfortunately, i didn't get to see the Frank Soltis, because i was
interrupted with a critical problem at a customer (Yes, it was i5/OS
related ;).
midrange.com
