The iNEWSWire UK e-mail newsletter is edited by Seamus Quinn. It provides System i- related news and announcements, opinions, and updates as it relates to the UK. This newsletter is sent on alternating Wednesdays.

YouTube is no longer merely a place to view "wacky" home videos, football highlights or prehistoric TV shows (delete as appropriate). The i community has started to explore the website's potential as a source of all kinds of information about its favourite platform.

The last issue of iNEWSWire UK featured the headline Power Systems announcements IBM made last month, including doubled processor core counts for model 520s and 550s running i OS and a new addition to the range in the form of the model 560. However, Big Blue made a number of other notable announcements on that date and, as usual, the devil is in the detail.

IBM made a number of new Power Systems announcements on October 9 including doubled processor core counts for 520s and 550s running i OS and a new addition to the range in the form of the model 560.

Although increasing the cores to four on the 520 and eight on the 550 may look like bringing Power i up to speed with AIX-driven Power Systems, it seems that the hardware was always the same, it just took a while to officially say so. The announcement merely brings the 520 and 550 into line with the 570 which was "unified" in April, says IBM's UK and Ireland i product manager, Nigel Adams.

ProData Computer Services has enhanced its DBU Remote Database access (DBU RDB) plug-in for its System i database utility, DBU. UK distributor is PSS.

DBU RDB allows users to access cross-platform, real-time data on remote systems using either the DBU green screen interface or DBU applications through the DBU graphical interface.