RE: [BULK] Re: What's in a name?

You have confused me.
How can naming a server the same as the OS ~reduce~ any confusion?

Trevor

I think Mark was suggesting to do what pretty much every other OS vender does, 
and drops the platform moniker altogether. One hardly ever hears Linux referred 
to as 'Linux on Intel' or 'Intel Pentium running Linux' or even these days, AIX 
referred to as 'RS6000 running AIX' - dropping the platform moniker does indeed 
reduce confusion to the outside world as a single consistent name is presented 
i5/OS. The platform (read: hardware) probably really only matters - mostly - to 
the back room IT guys and can, more often than not, be inferred from the OS 
label too (i.e. HP-UX, AIX and i5/OS). 

For example; when I'm discussing Solaris, I never refer to whether it's running 
on Sparc or Intel - only care about that detail when I'm looking for a package 
to install. Similarly in the app world Oracle is hardly ever referred to as 
'Oracle on AXI' or 'Oracle on Solaris' the platform moniker is almost always 
dropped in general conversation.

I do these days, try to use the i5/OS label in general conversation rather than 
iSeries or System I or whatever, but that's just me.