Re: Casino switches to AIX

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You can't really seriously be saying to change every line of code, or
internal names, that use an old convention? Really? There is a history,

No, but at least all the user visible ones. "System i Access" is one
of these cases.

and it is not reasonable to throw it all away. Just how many bugs do you
want to introduce into the system? Good money thrown at bad ideas, IMHO.
Where is the ROI?

It just shows that rebranding a whole product line is not a very good
idea in general.

Consistency is key. Consistency can be achieved by

a) not rebranding a product at all
b) rebranding a product through-and-through
c) Rebranding a product partially, with the released product usually
lagging behind the current brandname

a) Is easy, cheap, works well
b) is error prone and expensive, but can work just as well or better than a)
c) is what IBM is doing, basically it combines all the disadvantages
of a) and b), with the advantages of neither

I guess I'm coming to a place of recognizing that not all references
will be changed, and that I should direct my issues thereto to IBM, not
here in this all too public forum.

IBM doesn't give a shit about my opinion, and they are entirely right with that.