RE: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

No, but you can't buy a new Olds today.  And that's the point -
consultants and even IBMers go out to the field and say loudly "The
AS/400!" and then mumble "...or iSeries or System i or whatever..." And
then quickly make themselves feel better by rocking back and forth and
screaming "It's the AS/400!!!! YAAAAAY!!!!"


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Justin C. Haase - Solution Engineer
IBM Certified Systems Expert - System i
Kingland Systems Corporation

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darrell A Martin
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 9:45 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

Hi:

The basic point of the rant about what "we" call ourselves is moderately
well taken. However, "we" do not -- all -- work on System i5. This part
of "we" works on an AS/400 running OS/400. I would love to work on a
System
i5 server running i5/OS (if that is the correct terminology this week),
and with any luck will have that opportunity in the next year or two. 
There are a significant number of people on this list who are in the
same situation as I am.

What are we supposed to say? "No, the System i5 does not have a
many-year track record for reliability, it just came into being
recently"? "No, i5/OS is not the latest in a long line of stable and
useful operating systems, it is relatively new"? It think not. At least,
I HOPE not.

Besides, if you bought an Oldsmobile ten years ago, it is still an
Oldsmobile. It did not miraculously morph into a Pontiac or Saturn
because of a General Motors product line announcement.

Darrell

Darrell A. Martin  -  630-754-2187
Manager, Computer Operations
dmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

midrange-l-bounces+dmartin=moreycorp.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 
midrange-l-bounces+12/07/2006
10:59:36 PM:

[snip]

We work on System i - this is the family of servers which WERE AS/400 
servers, THEN iSeries servers, but are now System i5.

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