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."
- 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."
- 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 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…"
- 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."
- 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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