For those that were bummed out because WRKDBF was no longer an option to use based on it not being recompiled/supported on V6R1, hold onto yer hats!
WRKDBF is now fully supported on V6R1 and can be downloaded at www.wrkdbf.com.
Note that WRKDBF now has a pricetag of $449.  While I wish it was a little less [...]

Opinion: Windows on the desktop works OK.  Windows as a business server for core business processes is silly.  It’s silly because the IBM i, while being an ugly beast with it’s green screens, is top notch concerning the facilitation of running applications (specifically native applications).
That is why I find stories like this from ITJungle.com so [...]

So let’s say you are a guy that works from home.  And late one Friday afternoon you go to the cupboard and see some new energy bars the wife bought.  You proceed to snarf one down and think to yourself “good job wife, I really like these new bars”.  As you are throwing away the [...]

As regular readers of my blog know, I use Ubuntu (Linux) as my desktop.  I thought I would give props to it by posting the countdown to the most recent version coming out in a matter of days.  If you have been wondering what all the fuss is about concerning Linux on the desktop, it [...]

In my move to Ubuntu Linux as my desktop I lost my existing desktop backup solution (www.backupmybusiness.com) as it didn’t run on Linux.  I must say that I wasn’t super thrilled with backupmybusiness as it wasn’t as intuitive as I would like and it ran about $50/month for a *single* user/desktop.
So that let me on [...]