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Just my thoughts, but the "i5" refers to the hardware, like "AS/400" (which most of us still use, though) and "iSeries."
Technically, "i5" is one generation of the iSeries. The iSeries units that are based on the power5 chip are called the "iSeries i5". The Name "i5" wasn't intended to replace iSeries, but to qualify it.
So, the new generation of iSeries machines are i5. Then, when they released a new version of the operating system around the same time, they called it "i5/OS" instead of OS/400. That's confusing, because now it makes the name "i5" much less clear. That was a poor decision.
In order to call my machine an iSeries i5, I have to be running a Power5 chip. But, my machine doesn't have to be an i5 to run i5/OS.
IBM did the same thing with WebSphere. It originally was an environment for writing/running web applications. But then they renamed everything related to developing software to be called WebSphere and confused the heck out of everyone. Now nobody knows what WebSphere is anymore.
This is typical of IBM -- nobody really knows what they mean or what they're trying to say.
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