Recommended System i Articles
The Business Value of IBM System i in Midsize Business Deployments
IDC White Paper, July 2007
by Jean S. Bozman & Randy Perry, Analysts
"IBM System i and its predecessors (IBM iSeries and IBM AS/400) have been
deployed into midsize companies since the late 1980s. But System i has been
transformed since that time, meeting a new set of price points and performance
results that far outstrips the price/performance ratio offered in the 1990s, or even a
few years ago."
- IBM Offers New SMB iSeries Packaging, More Flexible Pricing
SystemiNetwork.com, July 12, 2005
by Cheryl D. Ross, Senior News Editor
"Most significantly in today's announcement, IBM is offering new options in the 520 model line and is changing pricing to make it more flexible to mix i5/OS, AIX, and Linux workloads on the system...provides double the processing power of the previous models, as well as an easy upgrade path for current 520 Express Edition and Value Edition customers...The Express Edition "Turbo," as IBM calls it, is priced at $42,000, which is $12,000 more than the 1000/60 CPW model. It features 4 GB of memory. It's also available in a RAID option with 40 MB disk write cache, priced at $48,000."
- iSeries At the Heart of Pioneering Interactive TV Project
SystemiNetwork.com, June 29, 2005
by Cheryl D. Ross, Senior News Editor
"When Taiwan Television Enterprise (TTV) set about creating a new interactive digital television service, it naturally turned to the iSeries. While Rochester's native son is never billed as a multimedia powerhouse, it boasts the same POWER5 processor as its pSeries sibling and IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer, which means that it packs more than enough punch for the job."
- Why the iSeries Keeps Winning
Managing Automation, February 22, 2005
by Lauren Gibbons Paul, Contributing Editor
"If your last experience with the AS/400 was sometime during the Reagan administration, you're in for a surprise: now called the iSeries -- [it's] is still going strong...many a departmental IT manager looked to the AS/400 for reliability, security and a multitude of integrated software tools including a powerful database based on DB2. None of that has changed...[but] transformed...into a system that can run Windows, Linux and AIX alongside the OS/400 operating system."
"With the iSeries you get a comfort level that doesn't exist with any other type of hardware." --Paul Leone, vice president of supply chain and IT logistics for adidas-Salomon Canada Ltd. (Concord, Ontario, Canada)
- Will Oracle Be Friend or Foe to the iSeries?
SystemiNetwork.com, December 15, 2004
by Mary Lou Roberts, Industry Reporter
"Now that the arranged marriage of Oracle and PeopleSoft is about to be consummated...the old J.D. Edwards customers...are perhaps today more nervous than ever."
- iSeries Screams Past HP in Notes Benchmark
SystemiNetwork.com, November 17, 2004
by iSeries NEWS staff
"...In the test, a 16-way iSeries i5 595 managed 175,000 Notes users simultaneously with a 33 millisecond response time — which, IBM points out, means that a single server could provide lightning-fast e-mail service for the entire population of Geneva, Switzerland..."
- iSeries Again Wins Top Honors from Resellers
SystemiNetwork.com, September 9, 2004
by Jim O'Donnell, Contributing Writer
"…The iSeries last month swept [sic] VARBusiness's Annual Report Card Awards for the sixth year running in the midrange server category, scoring top honors overall and in each subcategory: product innovation, support, and partnering…"
- iSeries Is the Comeback Kid, IBM Says
SystemiNetwork.com, January 05, 2004
by Cheryl Ross, Senior News Editor
"iSeries revenue has grown 12 percent from last year, IBM reports, [with] 300 new applications from more than 150 vendors were ported to the platform in the last year."
- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for iSeries Is Less Than Any Other Server (PDF)
META Group Study, Insider Weekly, August 26, 2002
"For an average three-year TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) comparison, OS/400 is at least seven-times less than Solaris, five-times less than HP-UX, three-times less than AIX, two-times less than Windows 2000, and 20% less than Windows NT."
- IBM Moves Up a Notch with Server It Calls Mainframe for the Masses
Investor's Business Daily, May 15, 2002, by Doug Tsuruoka
"As reliable as a mainframe and as easy to use as a PC server."
- Is the AS/400 the platform for ASPs?
IT-Director.com March 6, 2000
by Miles Wolstenholme, Bloor Research
"The AS/400 and the technology buying public have had a tumultuous, love/hate relationship. Certainly the majority of people that 'know' technology know that it is perhaps the most secure, robust environment available. They know that it can be very economic, too…"
- IBM's AS/400 Server Rocks the House in Two Java Benchmarks
JavaWorld, August 2000
By John Carr, InfoWorld Test Center
"AS/400 Leads the League in Java Performance. IBM's AS/400 server, long considered a solid, if drab, business machine, has vaulted to the Java performance forefront, according to recent VolanoMark and SPEC benchmark tests."
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