Team thinkASG executed the first Southern California POWER7 announcement event, on February 16, 2010 in their Irvine office.  Clients interested to learn about the world changing POWER7 architecture followed the thinkASG signs to the office and knew they had arrived when greeted by smiling faces in black and red polo shirts at the facility marked by the big "7" balloons.  Curiosity was peeked early by the IBM Wall Street Journal ads and the hints to the amazing price / performance enhancements of the latest generation of the IBM Power Server line. IT folks from across So Cal joined us, representing diverse industries including life sciences, automotive, manufacturing, distribution and services, all intrigued to get the latest updates. After a reception, the attendees segmented to AIX / L...

Sunsets Are Beautiful – Goodbye Sun IBM is not always the first to market nor do they always enter the market with the best product, but given time, they find a way to prevail.  Like the proverbial slow and steady tortoise that eventually beat the hare trekking through the forest, IBM whizzed past SUN Microsystems in the UNIX server wars.   A Foreign Culture When IBM introduced the RISC System / 6000 (RS/6000) in the early 1990’s, Big Blue entered the UNIX world of pony tailed geeks wearing sandals – not common place in the white shirt, ties, brick and mortar of mainframe customers.  Although the POWER (Performance Optimized With Enhanced RISC) processor that fueled the RS/6000 was accepted as a decent effort by the UNIX community, AIX was laughed at and scolded for be...