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John,

The AS/400 is part of the System i server family. But you cannot buy one
from IBM, so it is not a current System i server, but part of the family.
IBM will sell you a System i5 - which is what yours is - even if it has the
brand name on it.

And, whether you agree with the name or not - and there are a lot of people
who think they know better than IBM, "System i" is the name that IBM calls
it. While IBM's marketing has not shown its favoritism of the System i for
many years, there is no going back to iSeries or AS/400. What a marketing
snafu that would be.

As for i5/OS, my V5R4 system has the words "i5/OS Main Menu" on the MAIN
menu. Most of us have asked repeatedly to have this changed, and it seems
that it is - albeit slower than the declining sales percentage.

So, here is another idea. IBM has a slogan "i want an i". Why don't we just
stop farting around and call it an "i" - it rolls off the tongue better than
every other choice!

Trevor




On 9/25/07 9:21 AM, "Jones, John (US)" <John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

IBM had it right with iSeries. It notes it as a "Series" of systems so
that prior and potential successive systems will also be members of the
series. It implicitly says that there are multiple generations of the
platform and that you should probably expect more generations going
forward. A series is like that. "System i" breaks that line of
thinking. It is singular and does not imply a past history or a future.
Anything other than that this system is it; take it or leave it.

There have been several people, I believe Trevor among them, that argue
that a System i is not an AS/400. If we are to allow AS/400s to be
members of the System i club then that statement is false.

Like I said, we have two systems here and I call them what they are
labeled - one iSeries and one System i. If I'm speaking collectively
I'll refer to them as iSeries or Midrange. I don't generally use System
i as it is awkward and doesn't roll off the tongue (or keyboard) easily.
I rarely revert to the last millennia and say "400".


WRT the OS I do say i5/OS exclusively. I haven't said OS/400 for some
time. Now, if only IBM would do the same and update the system to say
i5/OS instead of OS/400. In the little places, you know, like the main
menu and the list of LPPs.



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