If you’ve visited the IBM i homepage (and certainly you have, right?) you’ve seen the tagline we’re using to describe IBM i this year: “IBM i – A Platform for Innovators, by Innovators.”
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Posted: May 9, 2019 |
Today is an exciting day for those of us who work to create IBM i and all of its related software. Today is Announcement Day! Of course, we have two of those each year (at least) when we announce Technology Refreshes. And, today, we are announcing a Technology Refresh–IBM i 7.3 TR6. But the biggest announcements are related to a new major release, and a new product which requires that major release.
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Posted: April 23, 2019 |
Greetings from the Rochester, Minnesota development lab! I’ve been a bit quiet lately, as the team works diligently on the amazing things we have in store for the future. However, the “conference season” has gotten off to a good, leisurely start, and will soon hit its full stride. That means many of us IBM i experts (inside and outside IBM) will be on the road, and I’m hoping we will see you attending at least one event.
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Posted: March 20, 2019 |
In the past few months, my team has been receiving many questions about Java, and especially about the support of Java, because of announcements Oracle has made about changes to how they will be supporting their versions of Java 8. We’ve had enough questions that we thought we ought to just publish something that clarifies what IBM i clients need to know about Java and its support options.
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Posted: December 11, 2018 |
Usually, people wait to write an annual retrospective until December, and it’s only October. But I have some good reasons to write this now, and the first of them is that there are multiple definitions of a “year,” and by one of those definitions, we already have reason to celebrate a year of success for IBM i.
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Posted: October 25, 2018 |
The IBM i OS consists of a unique architecture that not only has enabled it to remain relevant for three decades, but also enabled IBM i development to continue to provide state of the art technology for the users of the operating system. One feature of the IBM i platform often promoted is how the architecture enables companies to preserve their application development investment.
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Posted: October 2, 2018 |
Each year, it seems, I end up creating one or two brand new presentations which become frequently requested for a few years. The presentation I created this year is called “What is a ‘Modern’ Operating System?” One I created last year is now titled something like “IBM i—the Evolving Architecture.”
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Posted: September 10, 2018 |
Last week I wrote the blog I had to write. This week, I get to write the blog I’ve been wanting to write for most of the summer.
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Posted: August 14, 2018 |
Today, August 7, 2018, is announce day for Technology Refresh 5 (TR5) of IBM i 7.3 and TR9 of IBM i 7.2. In line with our IBM i communication strategy, this blog will cover highlights of the announcement, and further information will be found starting today on the IBM i site on ibm.com, the Power Systems site, in Knowledge Center, and on developerWorks. We’ll have more information in blogs and articles to be rolled out over the next few weeks. So, lets’ get started!
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Posted: August 7, 2018 |
Another story I ran into while celebrating the IBM i 30th Anniversary this year comes to us, again, from Belgium. At first, when I heard about it, I thought it would make a great client story for the IBM i 30th site, but, well, it just doesn’t quite fit, so I’ll feature it here instead.
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Posted: July 9, 2018 |
