Jack will present on “Getting Started: How to get oriented on this weird platform”. IBM i and IBM mainframes continue over 60 years since their inception to represent a valid approach to business computing, despite having often followed Yogi Berra’s proverbial advice, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it!”

Jack came from open source and personal computers to the IBM i environment and will share about the nature of and reasons for the differences between the IBM “big iron” approach environment and what we’re all used to from our personal computers and web servers. He’ll help you get oriented so the features of IBM i which are stumbling blocks to newcomers become instead stepping stones to a deeper understanding of enterprise computing in the world of big business.