Servers

CONTENTS

1. IBM's current mid-range
lineup, Oct. 15, 2004 ------------>

2. Multiple OSs on one i5

3. IBM's new multi-OS i5
to replace AS/400s

4. Jan. 2003 iSeries reprint
from i-BigBlue

5. IBM's new virtualization
technology on p5s & i5s

6. Web services for iSeries
insurance applications

IBM's POWER5 processor
that powers the new i5s

The IBM i5 Server:
Melding Unix and OS/400

Unification theory for servers

by Anura Gurugé, editor at large

Hardware-based platform independence is no longer an oxymoron. With the i5 it is possible to have AIX 5L, "OS/400", Linux and Windows, all at the same time, on the same server. This combines the IBM pSeries and iSeries servers into one all purpose mid-range that is powered by POWER5 processors - the successor to the all conquering POWER4. So the power to sustain this muti-personality machines is not an issue.

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Another view of multiple, disparate OSs -- from IBM

The Promise of Being Able to Run Multiple OSs on the Same Platform -- yet again from IBM