by Brian W. Kelly Book Description Before you invest another nickel in AS/400 technology, check with noted AS/400 author and information technology consultant Brian Kelly. Before you give up your money, whether you are a long term AS/400 aficionado or you are drawn to the AS/400 because you have heard of its unparalleled reliability and unique ability to run more than one job at a time without crashing, you may want to understand IBM's plans for the system. Since IBM isn't saying much, you will want to know what Kelly has to say about where IBM is headed with its AS/400 (iSeries) line. Before you spend $50,000 or more on your next AS/400, get a perspective from Kelly’s, based on his IBM experience and years of research, as to how good of a decision it may appear to be several years from now. No newcomer to AS/400 technology, Mr. Kelly has no reservations telling IBM how to run its AS/400 business. Kelly's in-depth analysis, anecdotes, collection of opinions, and conclusions can save you hours of evaluation and thousands of dollars. Information such as this is typically only available in the white papers presented by computer industry analysts. With this new book, you not only get a white paper, you get thirty-nine of them, as each chapter is basically a self-contained essay. Contents: Table of Contents at a Glance Chapter 1 The Little Lab That Could Chapter 2 Being There! Chapter 3 Who's on First? Chapter 4 System/3 to System/38 to AS/400 Chapter 5 It's A Beautiful Day In the Neighborhood? Chapter 6 The All Everything Computer Chapter 7 Bill Gates, Steven Jobs, and Otto Robinson Chapter 8 No Risk with RISC Chapter 9 MADGIC! MADGIC! MADGIC! Chapter 10 Some Servers Are More Equal Chapter 11 Where Does the AS/400 Fit? Chapter 12 AS/400 Is Not a Legacy System Chapter 13 The Future System (FS) Project Chapter 14 The Pacific Project Chapter 15 The Fort Knox Project Chapter 16 The Silverlake Project Chapter 17 The Re-branding of the AS/400 as the iSeries Chapter 18 The On Demand Computing Project Chapter 19 The Rise of the Software Division Chapter 20 Gerstner's Baby: IBM Global Services! Chapter 21 The Cost of AS/400 Ownership Chapter 22 Marketing 101 Chapter 23 It's the Marketing, IBM! Chapter 24 Homogenization Shows No Cream Chapter 25 The Dead Goose That Once Laid Golden Eggs Chapter 26 Keep Your Java; We'll Take Coffee! Chapter 27 Unix, Linux, and & IBM Chapter 28 Client Server and the Internet Chapter 29 The Birth and Death of IBM Word Processing Chapter 30 It's No Longer Watson's IBM Chapter 31 The IBM Suggestion Box Is Closed Chapter 32 The Integrated AS/400 is Dying! Chapter 33 Suggestions for Improvement Chapter 34 A Town Without GUI Chapter 35 Teach Me! Teach Me! Teach Me! Chapter 36 No Stork and No Baby AS/400! Chapter 37 Get Out of the PC Business! Chapter 38 Fort Knox II The New IBM eServer Chapter 39 Time For New Management At IBM Chapter 40 The Future of the AS/400 Appendix A -- About the Book Survey Index 473 Brian Kelly retired as a 30-year IBM Midrange SE in 1999, having cut his eye teeth in 1969 on the System/3 and later with CCP. While with IBM, he was also a Certified Instructor and a Mid-Atlantic Area Designated Specialist. Kelly takes pride in having announced the AS/400 at Marywood University in June, 1988. When IBM began to move its sales and support to Business Partners, he formed Kelly Consulting in 1992 as an IT education and consulting firm. Kelly developed numerous AS/400 professional courses over the years that range from soup to nuts. He has written twenty-one books and numerous magazine articles about current IT topics, including articles for The Four Hundred, Midrange Computing, Showcase, News/400, AS/400 Systems Management, AS/400 Internet Expert, and others. Kelly has also developed and taught a number of college courses and is currently an adjunct member of the graduate faculty at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he also serves as iSeries technical advisor to the IT faculty. |
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