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(More customer reviews)Frank Soltis' "Fortress Rochester" is the best account of both the way IBM's iSeries works and of the cirumstances inside IBM that lead to its creation. There are of course some highly technical parts to this book, and I followed them fine, but then I'm geeky. I bought three further copies of this book for the managers and executives in my company, and they all found large sections of the book (marked with a single 'chili pepper', indicating technical content was getting hotter (three peppers is the highest level geek stuff)) very readable and easily understandable. Those of us who have had the privilege of seeing Dr Frank speak live at COMMON and at IBM meetings or have attended his University of Minnesota lectures will find that this book is a written version of his Socratic way of teaching and explaining. I give this book six stars. It's the best - buy it - I bought four copies.
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The transformation of the AS/400 into an e-businessserver, the renaming of the system to the iSeries, and theintroduction of Version 5 software mark a major milestone in theevolution of IBM Rochester systems.Fortress Rochester takes youbehind the scenes at IBM Rochester and inside the iSeries to give youa guided tour of the very latest iSeries technologies andfunctions. Authored by Dr. Frank G. Soltis, IBM's iSeries chiefscientist and the creator of the technology-independent architectureused in the AS/400 and iSeries, Fortress Rochester is written foranyone who wants to know more about the iSeries. If you want tounderstand how the iSeries works so you can make smarter businessdecisions, write better programs, or simply see what makes the systemtick, Fortress Rochester is for you. You'll get detailed looks atthese and other key iSeries areas, such as: architectural principles,PowerPC and POWER4 processor technology, memory systems, the new I/O,the technology-independent machine interface, objects, single-levelstore, file system, partitions, Unix and windows environments, Javaand Domino, and Linux. Reappearing in Fortress Rochester isDr. Soltis's popular "chili pepper" rating system, used to identifythe level of technical detail as an aid to readers of variousbackgrounds, ranging from mild technical content to "smoking hottechnical detail." The appendix, "History of Fortress Rochester,"provides a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at the people and thelocation that produced such successful and revolutionary computersystems as the iSeries, the AS/400, and their predecessors.
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