Major companies have for years given financial analysts guidance on the state of their business quarter by quarter – telling them what to write, say the lesser-paid technology analysts sourly but IBM is finding that there is so much misinformation out there that while sticking to its no preannouncement rules, it is having to drop big hints on what it does plan to do: the idea that the company will ship Summit frames with new 3090s this year, it implies, is not too wild a speculation, but the key point is that the new frames will make possible enhancements in functionality for 3090J users – things like 4M-bit memory chips and fibre optic interconnections; otherwise the kickers for the Js, it suggests will address major software issues that are exercising its customers in areas such as office automation and transaction processing performance, data centre management, hanging more terminals off the things and improving networking and likely the VSE/ESA version of good old DOS/VSE too.
