RE: eServer iSeries or i5?

That will forever be known to those in the know as "the 400"

cheers
Colin.W

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From: Al Barsa [mailto:barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 22 March 2005 17:56
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: eServer iSeries or i5?



The decision to rename the iSeries as the i5 was done in haste.  The
decision was made less than one month prior to GA.  It's rumored (and I have
NOT verified) that IBM has trademarks on i6, i7, l8 and i9.  Don't ask me, I
just work here, on the best system in the world.

Al

Al Barsa, Jr.
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

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"i" comes before "p", "x" and "z"
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OK, I didn't attend common, but I'm reading my copy of Insider Weekly and I
see some Q&As from the Town Hall meeting. So,

Q: How do we educate about name change, everyone calls it an AS/400.
A: "... iSeries is the name, so correct everyone..." -- Peter Bingaman, VP
Marketing, IBM Somers

Hmmmm, but I thought the new new name was i5, so off to ibm.com/iseries I go
and the top of the page says "Midrange Servers: iSeries", but the title of
the page says "IBM Midrange Servers - eServer i5 and iSeries", the Featured
topics section starts "IBM eServer iSeries is a premier...", but the green
"Consolidation without disruption" case study above that section says "IBM
eServer i5 helps..."

So, what IS the name of the box? Are there two boxes? Peter seems to be
rather sure that it's an iSeries, but I'm not sure the rest of IBM is under
the same opinion.

-Walden

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