ERP giant Infor’s European conference schedule gets underway in November with plenty on the agenda for Power i people. Inforum 2014 hits Frankfurt from November 4-5, Paris from November 6-7,  London from November 11-12 and Amsterdam from November 14-15. Infor has around 19,000 customers around the world that are running one of its many IBM…

IBM made the most cash from Unix servers in this year’s second quarter but Oracle sold the most machines. That’s according to an erudite analysis of the latest figures from Gartner by Timothy Prickett Morgan on EnterpriseTech. Prickett Morgan’s reading of the Gartner ‘s latest worldwide quarterly server stats has Oracle down as shipping 11,108…

IBM has signed a number of deals that point to an improvement in its fortunes in China. Big Blue looked like it was dealt a mortal blow in the world’s second biggest economy after being caught in the cross-fire caused by Edward Snowden’s revelations last year. But now local server manufacturer Inspur will use DB2…

Packaging equipment manufacturer Multivac has switched its SAP operations from traditional Power i servers to an IBM Flex System. The large German firm’s new setup consists of four modular p460 nodes, two with Power 7 processors and two with Power7+. The company has also consolidated assorted Windows apps to three Intel-based x240 nodes within its…

PowerWire‘s Steve Bradshaw will discuss his recent experiments with IBM i 7.2 at an i-UG event in September. i-UG is the new name for the recently merged British user groups NiSUG and CUA/Common UK. Its next big get-together is a one-day conference at the Mercure Norton Grange Hotel in Rochdale, Lancashire, on Thursday, September 11.…

There has been continued speculation about the future of IBM’s chip-making division in the American press. Last week, U.S. news agency Bloomberg claimed that Big Blue couldn’t pay to be rid of the unit that produces Power processors. Yesterday, a report in the Poughkeepsie Journal cast doubt about the future of its East Fishkill processor…

IBM researchers in New York have set up a lab where executives can talk over business problems with a Watson supercomputer. According to a report on the MIT Technology Review website this week, the prototype meeting area has a giant display on one wall and microphones in the ceiling. The souped-up Power System listens out…

IBM reported its figures for the second quarter of 2014 in July and, once again, revenue from Power Systems was down. Its Systems and Technology division’s $3.3bn takings fell 11% year over year. Revenue from Power Systems fell 28%. In the previous couple of quarters, Power Systems revenues were down 22% and 31%. Such numbers…

A report by New York-based IDG journalist Agam Shah claims that the first third-party servers licensed to use IBM’s Power architecture will be on the market early next year. Shah quoted Ken King, general manager, OpenPower alliances, at IBM’s Systems and Technology Group as saying that the first non-IBM Power servers will be used for…

When I saw that PowerWire had hit the virtual newsstands, I naturally wondered whether it was short on material about AIX. As it turns out, the editor was more than happy to add some antipodean Unix articles to the mix. As an AIX techie from way back (I worked on the first commercial release, AIX…

IBM may not be selling its processor businesses to GlobalFoundries after all, according to a Bloomberg report. On Friday, the American news agency posted a story that said IBM had walked away from the negotiating table because GlobalFoundries’ offer for its chip operation was too small. Neither party had been willing to comment either way.…

Attendees at the inaugural meeting of a new LX/BPCS user group got the lowdown earlier this month on the application’s future. The meeting was held at the UK’s National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham on July 9. LX fans heard from Nigel Barker, an Infor senior business consultant, about the ERP giant’s strategic plans and roadmap…