According to U.S. analyst Evans Data, the number of companies planning or executing service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments on a Java platform increased slightly during the last six months while those planning to build SOA implementations on .NET decreased by almost 20%.

29 August 2007

Northdoor, an IT consultancy and provider of solutions primarily to the financial services industry, has launched a System i legacy modernisation service in the UK and Ireland. The service is intended to enable firms to unlock additional value and extended life from System i applications.
29 August 2007

The UK and Ireland were System i sales hot spots in the second quarter of this year, according to analyst IDC.
29 August 2007

At LinuxWorld San Francisco earlier this month, Zend Technologies announced a broadening of its partnership with IBM intending to boost growth of production-ready PHP applications.

ASNA, one of the oldest System i independent software vendors, has been bought by BluePhoenix Solutions, a software and services vendor with a history in the mainframe market. The letter of intent covering the merger of the two companies was announced by BluePhoenix at the beginning of August, a day after the publicly-held company reported its financial results for the second quarter. 
22 August 2007

Companies globally are lowering costs with ip telephony. But, hitherto, they’ve had to invest in several servers dedicated to running the technology. Now complexity has been taken out of the equation by running ip telephony on System i. Frank Booty analyses this new departure for the platform
17 August 2007

Big Blue has previewed a key release of i5/OS -- V6R1 -- which is not expected until 2008 but which will feature significant new security, web services and virtualisation capabilities to help businesses get the most out of their IT operations. IBM has also announced the first System i offering to feature POWER6, the i570 to be available September 14 this year; MySQL for i5/OS and DB2 Web Query.
01 August 2007