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I have also been seeing this. Though, I don't think it has anything to do with marketing or the notion that it might be old technology. Or, I should say, not any more than usual. Losing folks due to that perception has been an issue for a decade or more, and I don't think it has increased lately.

But, I think there has been an increase of folks leaving due to the notion that IBM doesn't care about the platform, or that IBM is abandoning the platform.

A lot of this started with IBM changing the name YET AGAIN in spring. They were already confused or frustrated with the name change from iSeries to System i -- they already felt that the number of name changes was absurd. When IBM changed it again in spring, they gave up in frustration.

Another thing has been the press and forums. There has been a ton of negativity both on Midrange.com and in the press talking about IBM not really caring about our platform and "proving" it by showing numbers that seem to suggest that IBM is not interested in supporting this platform further. The enormous amount of FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt) in our community is perhaps the biggest reason why people are leaving. They truly believe, in spite of the fact that IBM continues to provide top notch support, lots of enhancements, etc, that IBM is trying to discontinue the system. Neil Palmer, in particular, has caused an extraordinary amount of people to give serious consideration to leaving this platform.

Another factor, perhaps a smaller factor, but a factor nonetheless has been the fact that IBM has been showing all POWER systems sales as "System p" on their financial statements. So they show System i declining rapidly (since the only System i sales are for old models being phased out) and all new sales of new models -- even for IBM i customers -- appears to be System p revenue. This makes it looks like the System i is declining much faster than it really is, and that scares people and convinces them not to bank on it for the future.


M. Lazarus wrote:
I am seeing more and more companies either moving away or at least seriously looking into moving away from the i.


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