Product Lines
Ruminations on the System i Market
March 5, 2008
Send Us Your Thoughts and Your Product News, Too
Although the Product Guy has left the building, we promise to keep you posted on what's happening in the System i marketplace. Third-party products are just as pertinent to the System i as the i5/OS operating system because if you don't have an application to track shipments, tabulate sales, or inventory your stock, what would you do with the server?
(Hmmm. I've seen a trebuchet toss computers at the da Vinci Days festival in Corvallis, Oregon, but that's another blog, and I'm sure no one would ever think of doing THAT to a System i.)
We could never replace John Ghrist's unique and often humorous ruminations on the System i marketplace, but NEWS editors will work the telephones and their keyboards to inform you of all the new and improved products available to run on our readers' favorite operating system, as well as any trends that might be developing in the market. Heck, they might even go so far as to give you their perspective on or analysis of a situation.
We've divided the System i industry into five "beats" (we are journalists -- this isn't the 60s) that we've assigned to each of five editors who will check in with vendors from time to time to find out whether there are any trends on tap in their market or with their customers, whether they have a new or upgraded product release to share, or whether they just have something on their mind about anything System i in general.
The information our editors gather will appear here in the Product Lines blog in our NEWS Daily newsletter and also in System iNEWS magazine.
We invite you to send any press releases about news or product information you might have to us at pressreleases@systeminetwork.com. You can also contact the subject-matter editors directly if you have something you'd like to talk to them about.
They are:
- Cindy Bushong: RPG/CL (cindy.bushong AT penton.com)
- Linda Harty: Security, Networking/Connectivity (linda.harty AT penton.com)
- Vicki Hamende: Database, Application Development (Other Languages) (vicki.hamende AT penton.com)
- Erin Bradford: Systems Management (erin.bradford AT penton.com)
- Rita-Lyn Sanders: General (rita.sanders AT penton.com)
We'll be chatting with you soon!
-- Rita-Lyn Sanders, senior industry & products editor
Posted by rsanders at March 5, 2008 8:28 AM
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