midrange.com - In My Humble Opinion

Well, I haven't been blogging from COMMON yet ... but I just got out of the IBM Town Hall meeting a few minutes ago.

It was announced that the "System i" and "System p" were merging into a single, unified, platform called "Power".  The OS, originally named OS/400, then I5/OS, is now going to be called "IBM i".

New hardware was announced that would be common between "i", "aix", and "linux" ... all the same price, regardless of the OS that runs on it.

New marketing campaigns that will mention "i" set to be run.  Starting with a full page ad in the local paper.  I think they run a full page ad in the local paper at every conference.  Let's hope they live up to the promise and keep the marketing going.

They also mentioned more academic initiative stuff.

More later.

The other day I was wandering around the internet and found a blog post that had a short interview with Toni Taylor, who is the IBM liaison to iSociety, that I thought was pretty good.

Since midrange.com is one of the founding members of iSociety, and as a sort of experiment, I'm going to make this post an open discussion of iSociety. If you have questions or comments about iSociety, feel free to post them here.

[tags]iSociety, ibm, common[/tags]

Things are happening in the System i / iSeries / AS400 community.

• The COMMON conference is just around the corner ... and there promises to be some pretty big news announced there.
• Trevor Perry announced a new site: www.i4everyone.com as a place to showcase YOUR marketing ideas for System i. He is looking for images or videos which you have created to promote the System i platform.
• IT Jungle is reporting some more information on Project Prometheus (although still considered rumor)

Although I don't know ALL the details ... I do know some ... but I won't tip my hat (sorry, but I made a promise). I will say that yours truly is somewhat involved.

More later.

[tags]Series, System I, AS400, COMMON, IBM, Marketing[/tags]