RE: What would you do without RPG?

Not to go all Trevor Perry on you, but in the context of long-term strategy, it

would be more appropriate to use current branding - IBM i on Power. It

appears to me that IBM's long-term strategy is reflected in their divestiture

of their Intel server line, which made it difficult to promote the Power server

line.

I suspect that IBM i on Power will get more investment in the next 10 years

than it got in the previous 10, just because the Intel group within IBM is

somewhat neutralized. But IBM i on Power is a very mature product line

which doesn't appear to require a lot of investment to remain relatively

profitable. Contrast that with the significant investment required to support

Linux on Power, and the investment required for IBM to capture market

share which was gained by "Cloud" service providers such as Amazon,

Google, Microsoft Azure, and others.

From

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2046044/ibm-to-license-power-chips-to-keep-them-relevant.html



IBM said Tuesday that it will begin licensing its Power chips to other companies, pursuing a direction that companies like ARM have followed with great success.

IBM also said that it would form the OpenPower Consortium, a collection of companies that includes Google, Nvidia, and Mellanox; that consortium will form an ecosystem of hardware and software developers to drive innovation in cloud computing, said Tom Rosamilia, the senior vice president of IBM's Systems and Technology Group, in a blog post.



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