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IBM i

Website	IBM i 6.1
Company/ developer	IBM
Source model	Closed source
Latest stable release	V6R1 / Jan 29, 2008
Kernel type	shares many Microkernel design philosophies (SLIC)
License	Commercial
Working state	Current

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OS/400, i5/OS and IBM i have built-in subsystems that provide some backward compatibility with earlier IBM general business systems, such as the IBM System/36 and IBM System/38 series. The IBM System/36 was a Minicomputer marketed by IBM from 1983 to 2000 The System/38 was a Midrange computer Server Platform manufactured and sold by the IBM Corporation

IBM designed IBM i as a "turnkey" operating system, requiring little or no on-site attention from IT staff during normal operation. A turnkey or a turnkey project is a project in which separate entities are responsible for setting up a plant or equipment (e For example, IBM i has a built-in (and quite powerful) DB2 database which does not require separate installation and maintenance. DB2 is one of IBM 's families of Relational database management system (RDBMS (or as IBM now calls it data server software products within IBM's broader Information System administration has been wizard-driven for years, even before that term was defined. A wizard is a User interface element where the user is presented with a sequence of dialog boxes. IBM i is also well regarded for its tuned Java implementation, including hardware specific optimizations. Hardware is a general term that refers to the physical artifacts of a Technology.

Though not natively a graphical operating system, the Client Access Licensed Product includes iSeries Navigator a client based and web based version for graphical system and database administration and for the Apache web server and WebSphere Application Server, there is web based administration. IBM WebSphere Application Server ( WAS) a software Application server, is the flagship product within IBM 's WebSphere brand

In 2007, IBM, Zend Technologies and MySQL AB announced support for the PHP programming language and the MySQL open source database on the IBM i platform. Zend Technologies Ltd is a World wide web infrastructure software company with Headquarters in Cupertino, California, U MySQL AB (founded 1995 acquired by Sun Microsystems 2008 was dual headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden and Cupertino, California PHP is a computer Scripting language. Originally designed for producing Dynamic web pages it has evolved to include a Command line interface capability MySQL is a Relational database management system (RDBMS which has more than 11 million installations The goal is to enable modern web 2.0 applications on the platform. Web 20 is a term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and Web design that aims to enhance Creativity, secure

IBM i is one of the three operating systems supported on IBM Power Systems alongside AIX and Linux. Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks

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