Current Events & Commentary
Hardware Announcements: A New Look...A New Directi
After months of customer speculation, IBM parted the curtains on May 3 to unveil its first step into the next generation of AS/400 computing. As the sheer number of announcements indicates, that step is a giant one. It includes a totally redesigned processor lineup, a new operating system version, a radically improved database management system, a fistful of new application development environments, and the kind of client/server performance customers have been demanding.