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This week I noticed that the Starbucks near my house changed the design and names of the list of items they sell, and the prices also changed. At first it gave me the impression that the prices had gone down a bit, but after seeing the prices on purchases I made on previous days, I clearly saw that they actually increased the prices on everything.

Good trick. I wonder who they paid for the Christmas-like design that gives the impression that everything’s cheaper when in fact everything costs more now. They’re now prepared for the coldest season of the year when people consume more coffee (I think) so, at least I’m sure Starbucks won’t go out of business. Right?

The IBM Systems Magazine, Business Systems edition created a 5 page PDF with an illustration containing a 20 years timeline of the AS/400, now IBM i operating system on Power Systems hardware.

When I joined IBM in 1998, development of OS/400 V4R4 was on going and obviously there were support for a few previous versions already in the field. I remember that the IBM Guadalajara site still had some CISC systems in there for the support of earlier versions of the OS/400 and several products.

Via The iSeries blog.