On the IBM iSeries – AS/400:
- iSeries Again Wins Top Honors from Resellers
iSeriesNetwork.com, September 9, 2004 - iSeries Powers the U.S. Open
iSeriesNetwork.com, September 1, 2004 - Microsoft Dominance Keeps Small Businesses Awake at Night, Says the Yankee Group
Yankee Group News Release, January 28, 2004 -
A new Yankee Group survey reveals that many small and
medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are deeply concerned about depending too heavily on Microsoft. - iSeries Is the Comeback Kid, IBM Says
iSeriesNetwork.com, January 05, 2004 - Gartner Updates Server Platform Rankings
Timothy Prickett Morgan
The Four Hundred, October 13, 2003 - The Strategic Positioning of Advanced BusinessLink
White Paper (Full Report $76): Bloor Research, August 2002 - Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for iSeries Is Less Than Any Other Server (PDF)
META Group Study: Insider Weekly, August 26, 2002 - IBM Moves Up a Notch with Server It Calls Mainframe for the Masses
Investor's Business Daily, May 15, 2002 - Is the AS/400 the platform for ASPs?
IT-Director.com March 2000 - The AS/400 and the Data Warehouse
Free White Paper: Bloor Research, November 19, 1999 - And It Keeps On Computing
IndustryWeek, October 1, 2001 - IBM's AS/400 Server Rocks the House in Two Java Benchmarks
JavaWorld, August 2000 - AS/400 vs. NT Servers (PDF)
"…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…"
"It's sleek. It's informational. It's one of the top fivemost-visited sports Web sites. And beginning this year, the iSeries is a key component in making it all happen, giving fans realtime, accurate coverage."
"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."
"Analysts at Gartner have put out an updated application server evaluation model that any prospective server buyer should take a gander at…The IBM Power platforms, the pSeries and iSeries, were ranked third and fourth respectively [after IBM's zSeries 900 mainframe and the HP Superdome.]"
"The IBM eServer iSeries computer, along with its predecessor the AS/400, has a long and proud tradition stretching back to the nineteen eighties. Along the way the server has evolved to become one of the most flexible, reliable, secure and manageable of computing platforms available."
"For an averagethree-year TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) comparison, OS/400 is at leastseven-times less than Solaris,five-times less thanHP-UX, three-times less than AIX,two-times less than Windows 2000, and 20% less than Windows NT."
"As reliable as a mainframe and as easy to use as a PC server."
"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 platform has a deserved reputation as alow-administration, high availability, highlycost-justifiable platform… A particular strength of the AS/400 solution is the extreme degree of scalability from small office server to distributed multiprocessingenvironment…"
"Whatuote>high-tech device has been around for 13 years,has its own operating system and database built in, and is used by 250,000 companies, most of them manufacturers, to help manage theirbread-and-butter operations?"
"AS/400 Leads the League in Java Performance"
