Category Archives: News

From Steve Will at IBM Systems Magazine:

IBM is announcing today that the effective End of Service date for the V5R4 release of the operating system (known at that time as i5/OS) is September 30, 2013.

Been expecting this for a while. Full IBM Systems Magazine story here.

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Alex Woodie at IT Jungle has the story.

Note that this is the second big acquisition that Rocket made this year. Last month they acquired IBM’s iCluster business.

And don’t forget that they also bought Aldon in 2011 and Seagull Software in 2006.
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IBM announced last week that Rational Open Access: RPG Edition (RPG OA) will be available as a free PTF on IBM i 6.1.1 and 7.1.1 systems, starting February 14th. RPG OA was previously a licensed product and IBM’s announcement means everyone can now use it without charge.

Here’s a relevant excerpt from Dan Burger’s story on IT Jungle about the change. Read the whole story here.

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According to the January 2012 Extol Insider newsletter, there is an Outbound Throughput Enhancement scheduled to be included in the next EDI Integrator for i (EEI) release, 6.3.

Per Extol, “Internal tests have revealed throughout [sic] improvements of up to 50%.”

EEI 6.3 is nearing release date, currently scheduled for the end of the first quarter (March 31st).
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Check out this story from IT Jungle.

This month, Raz-Lee announced that it’s making a version of its iSecurity AV software free. Users can download the latest release of the software…and get a permanent authorization code that unlocks the software. That’s right: it’s not only free, but free forever.

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This is one of those articles I wonder about. ReadWrite Enterprises is posting an article saying that a new University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth study has found a huge drop (italics mine) in the number of companies maintaining corporate blogs over the past year.

I’m a little skeptical here.
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From Talking Points Memo. The New York Public library launched the Stereoganimator, a project that draws on the library’s archive of stereographs, a 19th century form where two nearly identical images are viewed side-by-side through a stereoscope to create the illusion of depth. The Stereogranimator allows users to turn images into animated GIFs. Here’s a link to one of the GIFs. Continue reading →

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Dan Burger at IT Jungle offers an interesting article about the latest IT Salary report from Computer Economics. Computer Economics is quoting average salary increases anywhere from 1.8 percent to 3 percent, which sound pretty accurate. In more positive news, … Continue reading →

Wondering what the monetary case IBM is selling for getting you to upgrade old PowerPC, Power4, Power5, and Power6 machines to Big Blue’s new Power 7 machines? Tim Prickett Morgan has an interesting article on IBM Power 7 upgrade math. … Continue reading →

Rockett Software continues its’ acquisition tear as it bought IBM’s iCluster business on December 13th. Tim Prickett Morgan has the story at IT Jungle.