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AN INFOR-ITE MUSES ON IBM'S SYSTEM I
With all the talk about the cloud, it seems appropriate to refer readers a blog entry by Bruce Richardson of Infor, who recently recounted what he called the enduring appeal of System i, formerly the iSystem, formerly the AS/400. Richardson, who joined Infor a few months ago, was surprised that so many customers run Infor software on the venerable IBM hardware and that the customer retention rate "continues to be several points higher than our 93% level average across all of our products."
About 1994 or 1995, Richardson, who was then with the AMR, wrote a research report declaring the hardware line was effectively dead. He referred to Kathy Miller of Infor who described the reason for the hardware's longevity as including the flexibility to run legacy RPG applications right alongside new Java and Web applications, without major conflict. He noted that the plans of Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison "to bundle Oracle’s apps with one operating system, app server, and database, and sell it with Sun processors and storage makes the offering look a lot like the AS/400."
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