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The Silverlake Project: Transformation at IBM

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"The Silverlake Project" recounts the successful development, manufacturing and marketing of the best-selling IBM AS/400 business computer announced in June 1988 - rooting in the IBM midrange computers S/36 (announced in 1983) and S/38 (announced in 1978). Over time AS/400 evolved into the IBM e-server family called "i-series".
The authors' background is "Quality Management" and "Market Analysis" cooperating with a professor from the Wharton School of Business and a freelance writer. They present the whole project like a case study complying with the leading business management concepts with a testimony provided by Tom Peters and with references to leading best business books authors e.g. W. Bennis, Tom Peters, R. Moss Kanter, P.F. Drucker, P. Kotler, A. Ries, J. Trout, K. Ohmae, M. Porter, E. von Hippel and P. Crosby.
Proudly the authors quote IBM Rochester as "Fortress Rochester" without any mentioning of Professor G. Soltis, IBM's Chief Scientist for the System i and known as the "Father of IBM AS/400".
Readers interested in the outstanding and unique fundamentals of the IBM system generations S/38, AS/400 and i-series should read and study Professor Solti's books "Inside the AS/400 - Featuring the AS/400 series" and "Fortress Rochester - The Inside Story of the IBM iSeries" providing fascinating insights into the revolutionary and successful IBM computer architecture and product line satisfying the needs of large, medium and small businesses worldwide with approximately 500.000+ installations.

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