Understanding the Product Name
Typical of IBM branding, their naming makes no sense and everyone still uses AS/400 to refer to IBM i.
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- AS/400 (originally name introduced in 1988)
- eServer iSeries (in 2000)
- System i (in 2006)
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- IBM Power Systems (2008)*
* In 2008, the platform was merged with the System p platform (which ran AIX and Linux) into IBM Power Systems.
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I still don't know which OS is the host OS yet.
Acquiring Hardware
As of 2013 I am encountering the OS IBM i 6.1 and IBM i 7.1 in major Financial Institutions. Because the OS will not run in modern (2013) VMs like VMWare or Parralells I need to get a hold of hardware. So where do we even begin?
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- Run at least 2 LPARs one for 6.1 and 7.1 at the same time.
- Nice to have, be able to run 3 LPARs with Linux as the third one.
- Run modern WebSphere ND.
- Be as low price as possible (these servers even refurbished are in the thousands)
Client Software
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Again, I am totally confused by the naming convention so still working all this through. |
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