System i (IBM i) Facts

Did You Know The System i....   
  1. has more than 400,000 system installed since 1988. The System i is the world's most popular multi-user business computer system

  2. has more than 16 million users signed-on every day

  3. moved its customers to 64-bit Power Risc models and NOT A SINGLE LINE OF APPLICATION CODE HAD TO BE REWRITTEN IN ORDER TO EXPLOIT THE FULL POWER OF THE 64-BIT TECHNOLOGY

  4. is installed in 98 per cent of the FORTUNE 100 Industrials

  5. is used in over 80 per cent of all municipalities

  6. 52 percent of customers own four or more System i systems

  7. are sold in more than 120 countries worldwide, and can display and accept information in 40 national languages

  8. has more than 8,000 IBM Business Partner and Independent Software Vendors Worldwide

  9. performance of high-end System i (AS/400) systems has increased an average of 60 to 70 percent a year since 1990. System i's price / performance improvement has average over 30 percent a year during the period of 1988-1994

  10. the introduction of 64-bit RISC processors in the System i has improved the price/performance gain to over 40%

  11. over 25,000 applications run on iSeries, as well as 3,000 client/server applications. Additional application are being added as software vendors from other platforms migrate their code to the iSeries

  12. Data Warehouse, Internet Connectivity/Electronic Commerce and Groupware/Lotus Notes are all available today on the iSeries

  13. comes with the most popular web server built in

  14. comes with a built in java application server

  15. comes with an email server built in

  16. can be the email server for Microsoft Outlook

  17. can run multiple operating systems (i5/OS. Unix, Linux, Windows)in one box

  18. has more than 400,000 copies of DB2 (IBM i's integrated relational database) installed, IBM is the industry leader in the relational database market

  19. can scale in size from a 1 person office to over 10,000 simultaneous end users using the same applications. The applications do not require recompiling, extra modules, or special tuning to take advantage of the machines awsome power.

  20. has the industry's largest suite of 64-bit applications, and is the only platform that preserves existing customers software investments - letting users instantly exploit the 64-bit environment when they upgrade to the new iSeries machines

  21. over the lifespan of the operating system, around a half dozen major processer and hardware evolutionary steps have occurred and all the while preserving the customer's software investments by enabling customers to instantly exploit the new technologies when they upgrade.

  22. Multiple Windows 2000 servers can be consolidated into 1 iSeries for less expensive operation and maintenance.

  23. is the only off the shelf business computer to achieve the coveted military C2 security rating

  24. has the highest availability rating of commercial computers with non-redundant processors

  25. can backup 300 GB per hour using a single LTO-2 tape drive and can achieve 5.2 TB per hour using more drives