THE FOUR HUNDRED - Power Systems & IBM i Insights

1. Izzi Throws Retiring IBM i Software Company Founders A Lifeline

   Founders of smaller IBM i and System z software vendors who are looking to sell their companies before they retire may want to check out a new venture called Izzi Software. In an interview with IT Jungle, the executives heading the startup explain that it has a mandate to spend millions of private equity dollars on acquiring midrange and mainframe ISVs that have solid products and businesses, but may not be big enough to attract M&A attention from bigger firms.

   It’s no secret that the IBM i and System z communities tend toward the older side of the age …

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2. IBM Power On Track To Get Above $2 Billion A Year

   IBM’s stock price is kissing $260 a share, and this is a level that, adjusted for stock splits, the company has not seen since before it ran up on the rocks in the early 1990s as its mainframe business and AS/400 business all shrank at the same time that RISC/Unix systems and X86 gear in the datacenter took off. What’s going on?

   Well, here is the deal: IBM has customers using its Power and z servers for mission-critical back office systems, and a lot of the customers using its IBM i, AIX, Linux, and z/OS platforms are going to be …

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3. What Do IBM i Shops Use To Write Applications These Days?

   When it comes to languages and tools for developing applications on IBM i, there are a ton of options available for customers. Thanks to the PASE runtime, a variety of open source languages and runtimes have been brought to the platform, not to mention the time-tested ILE technologies from IBM. But what do IBM i shops actually use to write new apps? For answers, we look to Fortra’s 2025 IBM i Marketplace Survey results.

   Fortra recently released the results for the 11th installment of its IBM i Marketplace Survey, which is based on surveys it conducted in late 2025 …

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4. Does Your IT Budget Reflect The World At Large?

   Sometimes, numbers are so large they become almost meaningless. If I say $1 trillion or $5 trillion to you, do you really have a sense of it except relatively to some other number in the same order of magnitude? You can feel the change, but you can’t feel the actual magnitude of the actual number?

   It is with this in mind that we turn to the latest forecasts for IT spending from Gartner, which shows a slight acceleration in the rate of spending increase from 2024 to 2025, but ironically, shows the absolute figures for IT spending in those two …

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5. IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Numbers 5

   Welcome to February! Punxsutawney Phil has predicted six more weeks of winter after being awakened from his slumber and seeing his shadow in the western Pennylvania town that is the adjective of the groundhog’s formal name. But, then again, don’t be too upset about the lingering winter. This furry prognosticator is only right 39 percent of the time, which is a little bit worse than flipping a coin.

   Frankly, the best supercomputers in the world can’t predict the weather, either, because the conditions are changing faster than the models. . . so there is that.

   We can predict with near …

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