IBM Honors Its Most Innovative System i Clients

1 January 1970

Moraine Valley College in Palos Hills, Illinois has continued to provide education on the System i platform and enhance its curriculum to keep pace with the system's growing capabilities. Most recently, the College acquired a new System i5 running Linux to help teach students in an operating systems course. After demonstrating its commitment to System i education for more then 18 years, Moraine Valley College was this year's recipient of the Education Award. "We introduced the System i Innovation Awards one year ago to recognize,showcase and share best practices among the System i community," saidBeverly Russell, COMMON board president. "This year we were impressed bythe more than 50 nominations we received and the innovation that wasexecuted on the System i platform by all of the nominees and finalists."

The winners and finalists, honored this evening at an awards ceremonyhosted by Mark Shearer, IBM System i general manager, and Beverly Russell,COMMON board president, were chosen by a panel of 25 judges that includedIT-industry leaders, analysts, and IBM and COMMON executives. Current IBMSystem i customers could be nominated by an IBM Business Partner, IBMemployee or themselves. Winners represent the United States, Canada and NewZealand.

About COMMON

COMMON is the world's largest users group of midrange IBM andIBM-compatible information technology users. The organization comprisesmore than 4,000 individual and corporate members. They represent more than22,000 IT professionals involved with the IBM System i, OS/400 and relatedsolutions.

About the IBM System I

The IBM System i is a tightly integrated business system includinghardware, middleware, storage and security. The "all-in-one" System iplatform embraces open standards and can run i5/OS, Windows(1), Linux andAIX 5L operating environments simultaneously so clients can simplify theirIT environment and reinvest those savings in business innovation. Businesspartners and solutions providers of all sizes drive System i5 success bybuilding, selling and deploying more than 7,000 of the world's most popularbusiness applications for their clients on the System i family.

About IBM

IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years ofleadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from acrossIBM and key IBM Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services,solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to takefull advantage of the new era of on demand business. For more informationabout IBM, visit http://www.ibm.com.

Footnote:

1) The System i5 platform can run Microsoft Windows via an integratedIntel-based server option.

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