Initiative for Innovation Brings Something New, Something Borrowed to i5/OS

摘要

Wedding bells are ringing. IBM says that the System i Initiative for Innovation has garnered 1,700 new or enhanced applications for everyone's favorite platform. Hearing those words, it's easy to skip over the "enhanced" part of the sentence and focus on the lovely word "new," conjuring up images of bright, shiny, exciting new technology. But before digging up something blue to display in honor of the occasion, it's necessary to put IBM's claim of so many new or enhanced iSeries into context. Yes, 1,700 new or enhanced applications in a time frame of a little over a year (since the Initiative for Innovation program started) is an impressive number.