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IBM Announces V4R4; Hardware Due Next Month

<P>No more red or blue boxes, more Model 170s and the Northstar chip across the entire product line are some of the changes in store for the AS/400 in advance of May's planned V4R4 release of OS/400.



UDB Technology Fully Extended to AS/400

<P>V4R4 of OS/400, available May 21, will bring enhancements to the AS/400's DB2/400 database that will bring it into parity with IBM's industry-leading DB2 Universal Database [UDB]. Reflecting this new parity, the AS/400 database will officially be known as DB2 Universal Database for AS/400 as of the May 21 OS release.