Re: Casino switches to AIX

["M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Trevor,

 Who is this change "monumental" for?  The engineers in the lab!

 The end user will take notice when things are cheaper, look better 
on the screen, are as easy to program as a Windows environment, 
etc.  Until that happens, it's "changing the name yet again."

 -mark


At 11/17/08 03:37 PM, you wrote:
> Scott,
>
> If people do think that IBM simply changed the name, then we have little
> hope for the platform.
>
> When S/38 and S/36 came together to be AS/400, it was a monumental day. 20
> years later, when System i and System p came together to be Power Systems,
> it was a monumental day.
>
> To have something that monumental labeled as "changing the name yet again"
> means that the IBM marketing in that regard has failed. Or maybe, everyone
> is stuck in their "AS/400" world and ignored what just happened in Spring
> 2008.
>
> Sad.
> Trevor
>
>
> On 11/17/08 3:06 PM, "Scott Klement" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > 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.